134 BC

Year 134 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 620 Ab urbe condita) and the First Year of Yuanguang. The denomination 134 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC
Years:	137 BC 136 BC 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC

134 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	134 BC CXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	620
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 190
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 12
Ancient Greek era	161st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4617
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−726
Berber calendar	817
Buddhist calendar	411
Burmese calendar	−771
Byzantine calendar	5375–5376
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2564 or 2357     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2565 or 2358
Coptic calendar	−417 – −416
Discordian calendar	1033
Ethiopian calendar	−141 – −140
Hebrew calendar	3627–3628
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−77 – −76
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2967–2968
Holocene calendar	9867
Iranian calendar	755 BP – 754 BP
Islamic calendar	778 BH – 777 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2200
Minguo calendar	2045 before ROC 民前2045年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1601
Seleucid era	178/179 AG
Thai solar calendar	409–410
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) −7 or −388 or −1160     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) −6 or −387 or −1159

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Scipio Aemilianus, victor of Carthage, takes command in Spain against the Numantians. He recruits 20,000 men and 40,000 allies, including Numidian cavalry under Jugurtha. Scipio, an expert in sieges, builds a ring of seven forts and a ditch palisade before beginning the Siege of Numantia. The perimeter of the circumvallations is twice as long as that of the city. The river Durius (Douro), enables the defenders to be supplied by small boats.
• Caius Fulvius Flaccus, as consul, is sent against the slaves. Uprising of 4,000 slaves crushed at Sinuessa, in Campania. Slave uprisings repressed in Attic silver mines and on the island of Delos.

Judea

• John Hyrcanus becomes high priest and prince (ruler) of Judea, until 104 BC, following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus in 135 BC.

China

• On the advice of philosopher Dong Zhongshu, Emperor Wu of Han promotes Confucianism as the official doctrine of the Han dynasty and assigns special merit to the Book of Rites, the Classic of Music, the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Documents, I Ching (the Book of Changes) and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

By topic

Astronomy

• Hipparchus discovers the precession of the equinoxes.
• Hipparchus creates a star catalogue.

Births

• Jin Midi, Chinese politician and co-regent (d. 86 BC)
• Posidonius of Apamea, Stoic philosopher and polymath (d. 51 BC)
• Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, Roman statesman (d. 44 BC)

Deaths

• Simon Thassi, High Priest of Judaea (r. 142-134 BC)