134 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	160s BC  150s BC  140s BC  – 130s BC –  120s BC  110s BC  100s BC
Years:	137 BC 136 BC 135 BC – 134 BC – 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC

134 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	134 BC CXXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	620
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 190
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 12
Ancient Greek era	161st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4617
Bengali calendar	−726
Berber calendar	817
Buddhist calendar	411
Burmese calendar	−771
Byzantine calendar	5375–5376
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2563 or 2503     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2564 or 2504
Coptic calendar	−417 – −416
Discordian calendar	1033
Ethiopian calendar	−141 – −140
Hebrew calendar	3627–3628
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−77 – −76
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2968–2969
Holocene calendar	9867
Iranian calendar	755 BP – 754 BP
Islamic calendar	778 BH – 777 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2200
Minguo calendar	2045 before ROC 民前2045年
Seleucid era	178/179 AG
Thai solar calendar	409–410

Year 134 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 620 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 134 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Scipio Aemilianus, victor of Carthage, takes command in Spain against the Numantians. He recruits 20,000 men and 40,000 allies, including Numidian cavalry under Jugurtha. Scipio, an expert in sieges, builds a ring of seven forts and a ditch palisade before beginning the Siege of Numantia. The perimeter of the circumvallations is twice as long as that of the city. The river Durius (Douro), enables the defenders to be supplied by small boats.
• Caius Fulvius Flaccus, as consul, is sent against the slaves. Uprising of 4,000 slaves crushed at Sinuessa, in Campania. Slave uprisings repressed in Attic silver mines and on the island of Delos.

Judea

• John Hyrcanus becomes high priest and prince (ruler) of Judea, until 104 BC, following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus in 135 BC.

By topic

Astronomy

• Hipparchus discovers the precession of the equinoxes.
• Hipparchus creates a star catalogue.

Births

• Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, Roman statesman (d. 44 BC)