239 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	260s BC 250s BC 240s BC – 230s BC – 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC
Years:	242 BC 241 BC 240 BC – 239 BC – 238 BC 237 BC 236 BC

239 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**239 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	239 BC
Ab urbe condita	515
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2082 – -2081
Bengali calendar	-831
Berber calendar	712
Buddhist calendar	306
Burmese calendar	-876
Byzantine calendar	5270 – 5271
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2398/2458) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2399/2459)
Coptic calendar	-522 – -521
Ethiopian calendar	-246 – -245
Hebrew calendar	3522 – 3523
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-182 – -181
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2863 – 2864
Holocene calendar	9762
Iranian calendar	860 BP – 859 BP
Islamic calendar	886 BH – 885 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2095
Thai solar calendar	305

Events

Concerned that Hamilcar Barca's leniency in pardoning those who he has captured who have participated in the Mercenary War will encourage others to defect, Mathos and Spendius order the mutilation and execution of "about seven hundred" Carthaginian prisoners, including Gesco. With the mercenaries jointly guilty of these atrocities, defectors dare not face Carthaginian justice under Hamilcar.
Carthage is besieged by the mercenary armies, while the city of Utica revolts and attempts to secede from Carthage. Carthage appeals to Hiero II of Syracuse and to Rome for aid against the mercenaries. However, the mercenary leaders reject the efforts of Roman mediators.
Sardinia revolts against Carthage and Rome takes the opportunity to annex the island.

Antigonus II, King of Macedonia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Demetrius II.
With Aetolia now as its ally, the Achaean League under the command of Aratus of Sicyon repeatedly attack Athens and Argos.

Seleucus II's brother Antiochus Hierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire. After achieving peace with Egypt, Seleucus II promptly invades Anatolia and begins the "War of the Brothers".

Diodotus of Bactria defeats an army of Parthians. He dies shortly thereafter and is succeeded by his son Diodotus II.

Haemosu, who is a descendant of the people of the empire of Gojoseon, establishes the ancient Korean kingdom of Bukbuyeo in modern-day Manchuria.

Quintus Ennius, Latin poet and writer, considered the father of Roman poetry (d. 169 BC)

Antigonus II Gonatas, King of Macedon from 277 BC who has rebuilt his kingdom's power and established its hegemony over Greece (b. c. 319 BC)
Diodotus I, King of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (approximate date)