39

39 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Corbulo

• Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
• Domitius Afer becomes a consul.
• Caligula is also a consul.
• Agrippa I, king of Iudaea, is called back 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. Jews protest. They are able to stop 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 Chinese influence in Vietnam.

• November 3 – Lucan, Roman poet
• December 30 – Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (79–81)
• Julia Drusilla, daughter of current Roman Emperor Caligula
• Britannicus, son of later Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Messalina

• Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician
• Herod Antipas