142 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:	145 BC 144 BC 143 BC – 142 BC – 141 BC 140 BC 139 BC

142 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

142 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	142 BC
Ab urbe condita	612
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4609
Bahá'í calendar	-1985–-1984
Bengali calendar	-734
Berber calendar	809
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	403
Burmese calendar	-779
Byzantine calendar	5367–5368
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (2495/2555) — to — 己亥年 (2496/2556)
Coptic calendar	-425–-424
Ethiopian calendar	-149–-148
Hebrew calendar	3619–3620
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-85–-84
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2960–2961
Holocene calendar	9859
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	-1141–-1140
Iranian calendar	763 BP – 762 BP
Islamic calendar	786 BH – 785 BH
Japanese calendar
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	2192
Minguo calendar	2053 before ROC 民前2053年
Thai solar calendar	402

Year 142 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calvus and Servilianus (or, less frequently, year 612 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 142 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

Syria

• Diodotus Tryphon seizes the throne of the Seleucid Empire.

Roman Republic

• The first stone bridge over the Tiber river is completed.

Judea

• Simon Maccabaeus succeeds his brother Jonathan as High Priest of Judea until 135 BC.

Births

• Ptolemy IX, Egyptian pharaoh (d. 81 BC)