AD 115

"115 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 115 BC.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	90s 100s 110s 120s 130s
Years:	112 113 114 115 116 117 118

115 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	115 CXV
Ab urbe condita	868
Assyrian calendar	4865
Balinese saka calendar	36–37
Bengali calendar	−478
Berber calendar	1065
Buddhist calendar	659
Burmese calendar	−523
Byzantine calendar	5623–5624
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2812 or 2605     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2813 or 2606
Coptic calendar	−169 – −168
Discordian calendar	1281
Ethiopian calendar	107–108
Hebrew calendar	3875–3876
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	171–172
- Shaka Samvat	36–37
- Kali Yuga	3215–3216
Holocene calendar	10115
Iranian calendar	507 BP – 506 BP
Islamic calendar	523 BH – 522 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	115 CXV
Korean calendar	2448
Minguo calendar	1797 before ROC 民前1797年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1353
Seleucid era	426/427 AG
Thai solar calendar	657–658
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 241 or −140 or −912     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 242 or −139 or −911

Year 115 (CXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, 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 Parthian capital of Ctesiphon.
• Jews in Egypt and Cyrene ignite a revolt (Kitos War) against the rule of the Roman Empire, which spreads to Cyprus, Judea, and the Roman province of Mesopotamia.
• Alexandria in Egypt is destroyed during the Jewish-Greek civil wars. Marcus Rutilius Lupus, the Roman governor, sends Legio XXII Deiotariana to protect the inhabitants of Memphis.
• A revolt breaks out in Britain; the garrison at Eboracum (York) is massacred.
• The Pantheon of Agrippa is reconstructed in Rome.
• Lusius Quietus, Trajan's governor of Judea, begins a brutal campaign to maintain the peace in the region.

Asia

• An earthquake destroys Apamea and Antioch in Syria. The local bishop is held responsible (he will be martyred and remembered as St. Ignatius).

By topic

Religion

• Pope Sixtus I succeeds Alexander I as the seventh pope of Rome (this according to Catholic biographies).

Births

• Pausanias, Greek historian and geographer (d. 180)
• Shun of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 144)

Deaths

• Alexander I, bishop of Rome (approximate date)
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian (b. AD 40)