136 BC
Year 136 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philus and Serranus and the Fifth Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 136 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
China
- Confucianism is adopted as the state religion in China by Emperor Wu.
Greece
- Carneades retires as head of the Platonic Academy and is replaced by Polemarchus of Nicomedia.
Rome
Spain
- The Romans hand Gaius Hostilius Mancinus over to the Numantians in order to repudiate his peace treaty with them.