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138 Bc

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Events

Zhang Qian begins his explorations in central Asia for Chinese emperor Han Wu Di .

The first Chinese diplomatic mission to the Ferghana valley, led by Chang Chien .

Hymn To Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi ; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the Western World .

Phraates II becomes Emperor of Parthia

Births

Sulla , Roman politician (approximate date)

Deaths

Diodotus Tryphon (suicide)

Mithridates I , King of Parthia