39

This article is about the year 39. For the number, see 39 (number). For other uses, see 39 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	0s  10s  20s  – 30s –  40s  50s  60s
Years:	36 37 38 – 39 – 40 41 42

39 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

39 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	39 XXXIX
Ab urbe condita	792
Assyrian calendar	4789
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	3140–3141
Holocene calendar	10039
Iranian calendar	583 BP – 582 BP
Islamic calendar	601 BH – 600 BH
Julian calendar	39 XXXIX
Korean calendar	2372
Minguo calendar	1873 before ROC 民前1873年
Seleucid era	350/351 AG
Thai solar calendar	581–582

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

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.
• Domitius Afer secures a consulship. Caligula ordering 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.
• 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 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 41.
• Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

Asia

• The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.

Births

• November 3 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65 AD)
• December 30 – Titus Flavius, Roman emperor 79–81 (d. 81 AD)

Deaths

• Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician (approximate date) (b. c. 54 BC)