Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC  160s BC  150s BC  – 140s BC –  130s BC  120s BC  110s BC
Years:	143 BC 142 BC 141 BC – 140 BC – 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC

140 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

140 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	140 BC
Ab urbe condita	614
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1983 – -1982
Bengali calendar	-732
Berber calendar	811
Buddhist calendar	405
Burmese calendar	-777
Byzantine calendar	5369 – 5370
Chinese calendar	子年 (2497/2557) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2498/2558)
Coptic calendar	-423 – -422
Ethiopian calendar	-147 – -146
Hebrew calendar	3621 – 3622
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-84 – -83
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2962 – 2963
Holocene calendar	9861
Iranian calendar	761 BP – 760 BP
Islamic calendar	784 BH – 783 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2194
Thai solar calendar	404
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Egypt

• Scipio Aemilianus leads a group of Roman ambassadors to Alexandria, where they meet with Ptolemy VIII.

[edit] Judea

• Simon Maccabaeus crowned king of Judea.

[edit] Asia

• Han Wudi becomes emperor of China.

[edit] Births

• Lucius Licinius Crassus, Roman consul (d. 91 BC)
• Huo Qubing, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty (d. 117 BC)
• Su Wu (d. 60 BC)

[edit] Deaths