140s BC

• The Third Punic War begins.[1] The Romans land an army in Africa to begin the Battle of Carthage.
• Servius Sulpicius Galba is prosecuted for corruption while serving in Spain, but is acquitted after he parades his weeping family members before the tribunal.
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso passes the lex Calpurnia de repetundis which establishes the first permanent criminal court in Rome.
• The turmoil in Spain escalates again with the renewal of the Lusitanian War, under the leadership of Viriathus, and the Celtiberian War.

• Andriscus, the last king of Macedon, ascends to the throne.[2]

• With Roman help, Nicomedes II overthrows his father Prusias II as king of Bithynia.

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