Editing AD 115

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Year '''115''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Vergilianus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 868 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 115 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.

== Events ==

=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* Emperor [[Trajan]] is cut off in southern [[Mesopotamia]] after his invasion of that region.
* Trajan captures the [[Parthia]]n capital of [[Ctesiphon]].
* The [[Diaspora Revolt]] erupts almost simultaneously across various [[Jewish diaspora|Jewish Diaspora]] communities in the empire's east, including [[Roman Egypt|Egypt]], [[Roman Libya|Libya]] and [[Roman Cyprus|Cyprus]].
* [[Alexandria]] in Egypt is damaged during the Jewish-Greek civil wars. [[Marcus Rutilius Lupus]], the [[Roman governor]], sends [[Legio XXII Deiotariana]] to protect the inhabitants of [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]].
* A revolt breaks out in [[Great Britain|Britain]]; the garrison at [[Eboracum]] (York) is massacred.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waldman |first1=Carl |last2=Mason |first2=Catherine |title=Encyclopedia of European Peoples |date=2006 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9781438129181 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC&pg=PA95|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] of [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa|Agrippa]] is reconstructed in [[Rome]].

==== Asia ====
* [[115 Antioch earthquake|An earthquake]] destroys [[Apamea (Syria)|Apamea]] and [[Antioch]] in [[Syria]]. The local [[bishop]] is held responsible (he will be [[martyred]] and remembered as [[Ignatius of Antioch|St. Ignatius]]).

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* Pope [[Pope Sixtus I|Sixtus I]] succeeds [[Pope Alexander I|Alexander I]] as the seventh pope of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] (according to [[Catholic]] biographies).

== Births ==
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], Greek historian and geographer (d. [[180]])
* [[Emperor Shun of Han|Shun of Han]], Chinese emperor of the [[Han dynasty|Han Dynasty]]  (d. [[AD 144|144]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Pope Alexander I|Alexander I]], bishop of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] (approximate date)
* [[Dio Chrysostom]], Greek philosopher and historian (b. [[AD 40]])

== References ==
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