140 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC  160s BC  150s BC  – 140s BC –  130s BC  120s BC  110s BC
Years:	143 BC 142 BC 141 BC – 140 BC – 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC

140 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

140 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	140 BC
Ab urbe condita	614
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4611
Bahá'í calendar	-1983–-1982
Bengali calendar	-732
Berber calendar	811
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	405
Burmese calendar	-777
Byzantine calendar	5369–5370
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (2497/2557) — to — 辛丑年 (2498/2558)
Coptic calendar	-423–-422
Ethiopian calendar	-147–-146
Hebrew calendar	3621–3622
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-83–-82
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2962–2963
Holocene calendar	9861
Iranian calendar	761 BP – 760 BP
Islamic calendar	784 BH – 783 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2194
Minguo calendar	2051 before ROC 民前2051年
Thai solar calendar	404

Year 140 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sapiens and Caepio (or, less frequently, year 614 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 140 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

Egypt

• Scipio Aemilianus leads a group of Roman ambassadors to Alexandria, where they meet with Ptolemy VIII.

Judea

• Simon Maccabaeus crowned king of Judea.

Asia

• Han Wudi becomes emperor of China.

Births

• Lucius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul (d. 91 BC)
• Huo Qubing, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty (d. 117 BC)
• Su Wu (d. 60 BC)