AD 39

AD 39 (XXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesianus (or, less frequently, year 792 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 39 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.

AD 39 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 39 XXXIX
Ab urbe condita	792
Assyrian calendar	4789
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−555 – −554
Berber calendar	989
Buddhist calendar	583
Burmese calendar	−599
Byzantine calendar	5547–5548
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2736 or 2529     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2737 or 2530
Coptic calendar	−245 – −244
Discordian calendar	1205
Ethiopian calendar	31–32
Hebrew calendar	3799–3800
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	95–96
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3139–3140
Holocene calendar	10039
Iranian calendar	583 BP – 582 BP
Islamic calendar	601 BH – 600 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 39 XXXIX
Korean calendar	2372
Minguo calendar	1873 before ROC 民前1873年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1429
Seleucid era	350/351 AG
Thai solar calendar	581–582
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 165 or −216 or −988     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 166 or −215 or −987

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
• Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.
• Caligula orders a floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for two miles from Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.
• Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory.^[1]
• Legio XV Primigenia and XXII Primigenia are levied by Caligula for the German frontier.
• Caligula's campaign into Germany is stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea. Even though he never even reaches Germany, Caligula proclaims himself victorious and orders a triumph.
• Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the Temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for having an erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in AD 41.
• Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

Vietnam

• The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.

Births

• November 3 – Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Roman poet (d. AD 65)
• December 30 – Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (d. AD 81)^[2]
• Julia Drusilla, daughter of Caligula (d. AD 41)

Deaths

• Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, Roman consul
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman politician (b. AD 6)
• Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician (approximate date)