39

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

Year 39 (XXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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.^[1]
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 (January 24, 41).
Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

↑ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.247–252; Bruce, F. F. (1963/1965). "Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea" (PDF). Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society 5: 6–23, p. 21. http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-21.