39

This page is about the year 39. For the actual number, see 39 (number).

39 is a year in the 1st century. It 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 Corbulo

AD 39 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 39 XXXIX
Ab urbe condita	792
Assyrian calendar	4789
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−554
Berber calendar	989
Buddhist calendar	583
Burmese calendar	−599
Byzantine calendar	5547–5548
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2735 or 2675     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2736 or 2676
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

Roman Empire

• Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
• Domitius Afer becomes a consul.
• Caligula is also a consul.
• Agrippa I, king of Iudaea, is called back to Rome.
• Legio XV Primigenia and XXII Primigenia are levied by Caligula for the German frontier.
• Caligula's campaign into Germany was stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea.
• Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem. Jews protest. They are able to stop construction of the statue until the death of Caligula (January 24, 41).
• Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

Asia

• The Trung Sisters resist Chinese influence in Vietnam.

Births

• November 3 – Lucan, Roman poet
• December 30 – Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (79–81)
• Julia Drusilla, daughter of current Roman Emperor Caligula
• Britannicus, son of later Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Messalina

Deaths

• Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician
• Herod Antipas