185

Year 185 (CLXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lascivius and Atilius (or, less frequently, year 938 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 185 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
185 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar185
CLXXXV
Ab urbe condita938
Assyrian calendar4935
Balinese saka calendar106–107
Bengali calendar−408
Berber calendar1135
Buddhist calendar729
Burmese calendar−453
Byzantine calendar5693–5694
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
2881 or 2821
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
2882 or 2822
Coptic calendar−99 – −98
Discordian calendar1351
Ethiopian calendar177–178
Hebrew calendar3945–3946
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat241–242
 - Shaka Samvat106–107
 - Kali Yuga3285–3286
Holocene calendar10185
Iranian calendar437 BP – 436 BP
Islamic calendar450 BH – 449 BH
Javanese calendar61–62
Julian calendar185
CLXXXV
Korean calendar2518
Minguo calendar1727 before ROC
民前1727年
Nanakshahi calendar−1283
Seleucid era496/497 AG
Thai solar calendar727–728
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
311 or −70 or −842
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
312 or −69 or −841

Events

Roman Empire

  • Nobles of Britain demand that Emperor Commodus rescind all power given to Tigidius Perennis, who is eventually executed.
  • Publius Helvius Pertinax is made governor of Britain and quells a mutiny of the British Roman legions who wanted him to become emperor. The disgruntled usurpers go on to attempt to assassinate the governor.
  • Tigidius Perennis, his family and many others are executed for conspiring against Commodus.
  • Commodus drains Rome's treasury to put on gladiatorial spectacles and confiscates property to support his pleasures. He participates as a gladiator and boasts of victory in 1,000 matches in the Circus Maximus.

China

Art and Science

  • Cleomedes discovers the refraction of light by the Earth's atmosphere.
  • A supernova now known as SN 185 is noted by Chinese astronomers in the Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu, making it the earliest recorded supernova.

Religion

Births

  • Liu Ji (or Jingyu), Chinese official and minister (d. 233)
  • Origen, Christian scholar and theologian (approximate date)
  • Wang Xiang, Chinese minister of the Cao Wei state (d. 269)

Deaths

References

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