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Year 85 was a common year starting on Saturday
Common year starting on Saturday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Saturday . Examples: Gregorian calendar 2011, 2005, & 1983 or Julian calendar years 1911 & 1905 ....
 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
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Year 85 was a common year starting on Saturday
Common year starting on Saturday

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Saturday . Examples: Gregorian calendar 2011, 2005, & 1983 or Julian calendar years 1911 & 1905 ....
 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
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Roman Empire
  • Dacia
    Dacia

    In ancient geography, Dacia was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Greeks "Getae". Dacia was a large district of East-Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathian Mountains, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisia or Tisza, on the east by the Tyras or Dniester, now in eastern Moldova....
    ns under Decebalus
    Decebalus

    Decebalus or "The Brave One" was a king of Dacia and is famous for fighting three wars and negotiating two interregnums of peace without being eliminated against the Roman Empire under two emperors....
     engage in two wars against the Romans from this year to AD 88
    88

    Year 88 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
     or 89
    89

    Year 89 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
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  • Domitian
    Domitian

    Titus Flavius Domitianus , commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 14 September 81 until his death. Domitian was the last emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Domitian's father Vespasian , his elder brother Titus , and that of Domitian himself...
     repulses a Dacian invasion of Moesia
    Moesia

    Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
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  • Jealous of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
    's success in Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
    , Domitian recalls and subsequently poisons the general.
  • Domitian appoints himself censor
    Censor (ancient Rome)

    A Censor was a Magistratus of high rank in the ancient Roman Republic. This position was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances....
     for life, which gives him the right to control the Senate. His totalitarian tendencies put the senatorial aristocracy
    Roman Senate

    The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
     firmly in opposition to him.


Asia
  • Baekje
    Baekje

    Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
     invades the outskirts of Silla
    Silla

    Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
     in the Korean peninsula
    Korean Peninsula

    The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water....
    . The war continues till the peace treaty of 105
    105

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Births

  • Ptolemy
    Ptolemy

    Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
    , Greek astronomer (approximate date)


Deaths