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39 is a year in the 1st century.
[change] Roman Empire
- Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
- Domitius Afer secures a consulship.
- Caligula is also a consul.
- Agrippa I, king of Iudaea, is recalled 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. 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.
- The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.
