39

This page is about the year 39. For the actual number, see thirty-nine.

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.

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

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	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 165 or −216 or −988     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 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