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Find sources: "185" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 1st century 2nd century 3rd century Decades 160s 170s 180s 190s 200s Years 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 v t e 185 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Categories Births Deaths v t e 185 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 185 CLXXXV Ab urbe condita 938 Assyrian calendar 4935 Balinese saka calendar 106–107 Bengali calendar −409 – −408 Berber calendar 1135 Buddhist calendar 729 Burmese calendar −453 Byzantine calendar 5693–5694 Chinese calendar 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2882 or 2675 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2883 or 2676 Coptic calendar −99 – −98 Discordian calendar 1351 Ethiopian calendar 177–178 Hebrew calendar 3945–3946 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 241–242 - Shaka Samvat 106–107 - Kali Yuga 3285–3286 Holocene calendar 10185 Iranian calendar 437 BP – 436 BP Islamic calendar 450 BH – 449 BH Javanese calendar 61–62 Julian calendar 185 CLXXXV Korean calendar 2518 Minguo calendar 1727 before ROC 民前1727年 Nanakshahi calendar −1283 Seleucid era 496/497 AG Thai solar calendar 727–728 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 311 or −70 or −842 — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 312 or −69 or −841 Year **185** (**[CLXXXV](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Friday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Friday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 185 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ## Events ### By place #### Roman Empire - Nobles of Britain demand that Emperor [Commodus](/source/Commodus) rescind all power given to [Tigidius Perennis](/source/Tigidius_Perennis), who is eventually executed.[1] - [Publius Helvius Pertinax](/source/Pertinax) is made governor of Britain and quells a mutiny of the [British](/source/Roman_Britain) [Roman legions](/source/Roman_legion) who wanted him to become emperor. The disgruntled usurpers go on to attempt to assassinate the governor. - [Tigidius Perennis](/source/Tigidius_Perennis), his family and many others are executed for conspiring against [Commodus](/source/Commodus). - Commodus drains [Rome's](/source/Ancient_Rome) treasury to put on gladiatorial spectacles and confiscates property to support his pleasures. He participates as a [gladiator](/source/Gladiator) and boasts of victory in 1,000 matches in the [Circus Maximus](/source/Circus_Maximus). #### China - [Zhi Yao](/source/Zhi_Yao_(monk)), a [Kushan](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kushan_(clan)&action=edit&redlink=1) [Buddhist](/source/Buddhist) monk of [Yuezhi](/source/Yuezhi) ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the [Chinese language](/source/Chinese_language) during the [Han dynasty](/source/Han_dynasty). - February – The rebels of the [Yellow Turban](/source/Yellow_Turban_Rebellion) are defeated by the imperial army, but only two months later, the [rebellion](/source/Rebellion) breaks out again. It spreads to the [Taihang Mountains](/source/Taihang_Mountains) on the western border of [Hebei Province](/source/Hebei). ### By topic #### Art and Science - [Cleomedes](/source/Cleomedes) discovers the [refraction](/source/Refraction) of light by the Earth's atmosphere. - A [supernova](/source/Supernova) now known as [SN 185](/source/SN_185) is noted by [Chinese astronomers](/source/Chinese_astronomy) in the *Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu*, making it the earliest recorded supernova. #### Religion - [Irenaeus](/source/Irenaeus) writes that there are only four [Gospels](/source/Gospels) (approximate date). ## Births - [Liu Ji](/source/Liu_Ji_(Three_Kingdoms)) (or **Jingyu**), Chinese official and minister (d. [233](/source/233)) - [Origen](/source/Origen), Christian scholar and [theologian](/source/Theology) (approximate date) - [Wang Xiang](/source/Wang_Xiang), Chinese minister of the [Cao Wei](/source/Cao_Wei) state (d. [269](/source/269)) ## Deaths - [April 21](/source/April_21) – [Apollonius the Apologist](/source/Apollonius_the_Apologist), Christian [apologist](/source/Apologetics) - [Pharasmanes III](/source/Pharasmanes_III_of_Iberia) (or **P'arsman**), Georgian king of [Iberia](/source/Kingdom_of_Iberia_(antiquity)) - [Tigidius Perennis](/source/Tigidius_Perennis), Roman [praetorian prefect](/source/Praetorian_prefect) (executed) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (March 29, 2012). *The Oxford classical dictionary* (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 1480. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-954556-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-954556-8). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [185](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/185) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/185?action=history)). 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