131 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	160s BC  150s BC  140s BC  – 130s BC –  120s BC  110s BC  100s BC
Years:	134 BC 133 BC 132 BC – 131 BC – 130 BC 129 BC 128 BC

131 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

131 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	131 BC
Ab urbe condita	623
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4620
Bahá'í calendar	-1974–-1973
Bengali calendar	-723
Berber calendar	820
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	414
Burmese calendar	-768
Byzantine calendar	5378–5379
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (2506/2566) — to — 庚戌年 (2507/2567)
Coptic calendar	-414–-413
Ethiopian calendar	-138–-137
Hebrew calendar	3630–3631
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-74–-73
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2971–2972
Holocene calendar	9870
Iranian calendar	752 BP – 751 BP
Islamic calendar	775 BH – 774 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2203
Minguo calendar	2042 before ROC 民前2042年
Thai solar calendar	413

Year 131 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mucianus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 623 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 131 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Aristonicus of Pergamon leads an uprising against Rome, and consul Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianius is killed in the fighting.
• The Roman censor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus attempts to remove the tribune Gaius Atinius Labeo Macerio from the Senate, the angry Atinius drags him to be thrown off the Tarpeian Rock, and Metellus is only saved by the intervention of other senators.
• The tribune Gaius Papirius Carbo passes a measure allowing the use of secret ballots in legislative assemblies.
• For the first time in Roman history, both censors are plebeians (Metellus and Quintus Pompeius).
• First Acta Diurna appears in Rome around this time.