133 BC

Year 133 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scaevola and Frugi (or, less frequently, year 621 Ab urbe condita) and the Second Year of Yuanguang. The denomination 133 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:	136 BC 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC

133 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	133 BC CXXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	621
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 191
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 13
Ancient Greek era	161st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4618
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−725
Berber calendar	818
Buddhist calendar	412
Burmese calendar	−770
Byzantine calendar	5376–5377
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2565 or 2358     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2566 or 2359
Coptic calendar	−416 – −415
Discordian calendar	1034
Ethiopian calendar	−140 – −139
Hebrew calendar	3628–3629
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−76 – −75
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2968–2969
Holocene calendar	9868
Iranian calendar	754 BP – 753 BP
Islamic calendar	777 BH – 776 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2201
Minguo calendar	2044 before ROC 民前2044年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1600
Seleucid era	179/180 AG
Thai solar calendar	410–411
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) −6 or −387 or −1159     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) −5 or −386 or −1158

The Roman empire in 133 BC (in dark and light red)

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, as consul, is sent against the slaves in Italy. Gaius Marius serves under Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia.
• Scipio Aemilianus captures Numantia,^[1] after a siege of eight months, suffering famine and pestilence. The remnant population of 4,000 citizens, surrender and set their city on fire. Thus ends the Numantine War.
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, is elected tribune of the people. He attempts to pass a law to redistribute the public land to benefit small landowners. Opposed by wealthier factions in the Roman Senate, he is killed by a group of senators and their followers that same year.
• The Kingdom of Pergamum is deeded to Rome, Aristonicus starts a rebellion against this.

China

• June – A large army of the Han dynasty, under the overall command of Han Anguo, attempts to ambush the Xiongnu leader Junchen Chanyu in the Battle of Mayi. By pretending to betray the city of Mayi, a Han official had lured Junchen onto Han soil. However, a captured Chinese officer tips off Junchen, and so he avoids the ambush. The episode abrogates the Xiongnu-Han treaty (called heqin 和親 or "harmonious kinship") and marks the beginning of Emperor Wu's Han-Xiongnu War.
• Foreign Minister Wang Hui, who, against the opposition of Han Anguo, had advocated for war, fails to attack the retreating supply column of the Xiongnu and is sentenced to death. He commits suicide.^[2]

Deaths

• Attalus III, king of Pergamon. In his will, he makes the people of Rome his heirs (b. 170 BC)^[3][4][5]
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Roman tribune (assassination) (b. 168 BC)

References

1. Davis, Paul (2001). Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 29.
2. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 127–131. ISBN 978-1628944167.
3. Hansen, Esther V. (1971). The Attalids of Pergamon. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; London: Cornell University Press Ltd. ISBN 0-8014-0615-3.
4. Kosmetatou, Elizabeth (2003) "The Attalids of Pergamon," in Andrew Erskine, ed., A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 159–174. ISBN 1-4051-3278-7. text
5. Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth, Who's Who (Classical World), pg. 61.