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Year '''185''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CLXXXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] 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.

== Invention ==

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* Nobles of Britain demand that Emperor [[Commodus]] rescind all power given to [[Tigidius Perennis]], who is eventually executed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hornblower |first=Simon |title=The Oxford classical dictionary |last2=Spawforth |first2=Antony |last3=Eidinow |first3=Esther |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |edition=4th |location=Oxford |publication-date=March 29, 2012 |pages=1480}}</ref>  
* [[Pertinax|Publius Helvius Pertinax]] is made governor of Britain and quells a mutiny of the [[Roman Britain|British]] [[Roman legion]]s 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 [[Ancient Rome|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 ====
* [[Zhi Yao (monk)|Zhi Yao]], a [[Kushan (clan)|Kushan]] [[Buddhist]] monk of [[Yuezhi]] ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the [[Chinese language]] during the [[Han dynasty]].
* February &ndash; The rebels of the [[Yellow Turban Rebellion|Yellow Turban]] are defeated by the imperial army, but only two months later, the [[rebellion]] breaks out again. It spreads to the [[Taihang Mountains]] on the western border of [[Hebei|Hebei Province]].

=== By topic ===

==== 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 astronomy|Chinese astronomer]]s in the ''Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu'', making it the earliest recorded supernova.

==== Religion ====
* [[Irenaeus]] writes that there are only four [[Gospels]] (approximate date).
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== Births ==
* [[Liu Ji (Three Kingdoms)|Liu Ji]] (or '''Jingyu'''), Chinese official and minister (d. [[233]])
* [[Origen]], Christian scholar and [[Theology|theologian]] (approximate date)
* [[Wang Xiang]], Chinese minister of the [[Cao Wei]] state (d. [[269]])

== Deaths ==
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Apollonius the Apologist]], Christian [[Apologetics|apologist]]
* [[Pharasmanes III of Iberia|Pharasmanes III]] (or '''P'arsman'''), Georgian king of [[Kingdom of Iberia (antiquity)|Iberia]]
* [[Tigidius Perennis]], Roman [[praetorian prefect]] (executed)

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