What is 39?
{{dablink|This page is about the year 39. For the actual number, see [[39 (number)]].}} {{year nav|39}} {{Year in other calendars}} '''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 [[Roman consul|Consulship]] of [[Caligula|Augustus]] and [[Corbulo]]''' == 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 [[Roman consul|consul]]. * [[Caligula]] is also a consul. * [[Agrippa I]], king of [[Iudaea]], is called back to [[Rome]]. * [[Legio XV Primigenia|Legio XV ''Primigenia'']] and [[Legio XXII Primigenia|XXII ''Primigenia'']] are levied by Caligula for the [[Germany|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 [[China|Chinese]] influence in [[History of Vietnam|Vietnam]]. == Births == * [[November 3]] – [[Lucan (poet)|Lucan]], Roman poet * [[December 30]] – [[Titus|Titus Flavius]], [[Roman Emperors|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 Empire|Roman]] [[rhetoric]]ian * [[Herod Antipas]] [[Category:39]]