AD 105

Year 105 (CV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Candidus and Iulius (or, less frequently, year 858 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 105 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:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	80s 90s 100s 110s 120s
Years:	102 103 104 105 106 107 108

105 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	105 CV
Ab urbe condita	858
Assyrian calendar	4855
Balinese saka calendar	26–27
Bengali calendar	−488
Berber calendar	1055
Buddhist calendar	649
Burmese calendar	−533
Byzantine calendar	5613–5614
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2801 or 2741     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2802 or 2742
Coptic calendar	−179 – −178
Discordian calendar	1271
Ethiopian calendar	97–98
Hebrew calendar	3865–3866
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	161–162
- Shaka Samvat	26–27
- Kali Yuga	3205–3206
Holocene calendar	10105
Iranian calendar	517 BP – 516 BP
Islamic calendar	533 BH – 532 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	105 CV
Korean calendar	2438
Minguo calendar	1807 before ROC 民前1807年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1363
Seleucid era	416/417 AG
Thai solar calendar	647–648
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 231 or −150 or −922     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 232 or −149 or −921

Events

Roman Empire

• Emperor Trajan starts the second expedition against Dacia; he leaves with the Imperial Roman fleet from Brundusium.
• Permanent castrum of Legio II Adiutrix at Aquincum (modern Budapest) in Pannonia.
• Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix and II Traiana Fortis are created by Trajan.
• The Romans conquer Kerak from the Nabateans.
• Pacorus II of Parthia dies after a 27-year reign, in which he has reclaimed all of his empire. His successor Vologases III reigns until 147 AD, suppressing brief rebellions, as he battles against the Kushan and Alani.

Asia

• Emperor He Di dies after a 17-year reign in which court eunuchs and the emperor's in-laws have regained influence. Empress Deng Sui places her son Shang Di (barely 3 months old) on the throne, as the fifth emperor of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• Last year (17th) of yongyuan era and start of yuanxing era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.
• A peace treaty is signed between Baekje and Silla in the Korean peninsula (the war started in AD 85).

Art and Science

• Papermaking is refined by the Chinese eunuch Cai Lun, who receives official praise from the emperor for his methods of making paper from tree bark, hemp, remnant rags and fish nets. Paper had been made in China from the 2nd century BC, but Cai Lun's paper provides a writing surface far superior to pure silk and is much less costly to produce. Bamboo and wooden slips will remain the usual materials for books and scrolls in most of the world for another 200 years, and paper will remain a Chinese secret for 500 years.
• The Trajan Bridge is finished. For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.[1]

Religion

• Pope Alexander I succeeds Pope Evaristus as the sixth pope (approximate date).
• Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Plutarch to Patriarch Sedecion.

Births

• Alexander of Abonoteichus, Greek mystic and oracle (d. 170)
• Han Shangdi, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 106)
• Marcus Sedatius Severianus, Roman politician (d. 161)

Deaths

• June 24 – Gnaeus Afranius Dexter, Roman politician
• Gnaeus Pompeius Longinus, Roman politician
• Marcus Valerius Probus, Roman grammarian
• Pacorus II, king of the Parthian Empire
• Plutarch, bishop of Byzantium

References

1. In terms of overall length, the bridge seems to have been surpassed by another Roman bridge across the Danube, Constantine's Bridge, a little-known structure whose length is given with 2437 m (Tudor 1974, p. 139; Galliazzo 1994, p. 319).

Bibliography

• Tudor, D. (1974), "Le pont de Constantin le Grand à Celei", Les ponts romains du Bas-Danube, Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae Études, 51, Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, pp. 135–166
• Galliazzo, Vittorio (1994), I ponti romani. Catalogo generale, Vol. 2, Treviso: Edizioni Canova, pp. 320–324 (No. 646), ISBN 88-85066-66-6