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 (or, less frequently, year 618 Ab urbe condita) 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.

China

 * Confucianism is adopted as the state religion in China by the emperor Emperor Wu.

Greece

 * Carneades retires as head of the Platonic Academy and is replaced by Polemarchus of Nicomedia.

Judaea

 * Simon Thassi defeats an invasion by the Seleucid general Cendebaeus.

Rome

 * Censorship of Appius Claudius Pulcher and Quintus Fulvius Nobilior

Spain

 * The Romans hand Gaius Hostilius Mancinus over to the Numantians in order to repudiate his peace treaty with them.