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| Gregorian calendar | 165 CLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 918 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4915 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 86–87 |
| Bengali calendar | −428 |
| Berber calendar | 1115 |
| Buddhist calendar | 709 |
| Burmese calendar | −473 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5673–5674 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2861 or 2801 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2862 or 2802 |
| Coptic calendar | −119 – −118 |
| Discordian calendar | 1331 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 157–158 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3925–3926 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 221–222 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 86–87 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3265–3266 |
| Holocene calendar | 10165 |
| Iranian calendar | 457 BP – 456 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 471 BH – 470 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 41–42 |
| Julian calendar | 165 CLXV |
| Korean calendar | 2498 |
| Minguo calendar | 1747 before ROC 民前1747年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1303 |
| Seleucid era | 476/477 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 707–708 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 291 or −90 or −862 — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 292 or −89 or −861 |
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Year 165 (CLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia. They take Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon. The Parthians ask for peace.
- A pandemic known as the Antonine Plague breaks out in Rome.
- Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans.
- The Romans make a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates.
- Avidius Cassius takes Nisibis. He conquers the north of Mesopotamia.
- Marcus Aurelius creates four legal districts in Italy.
By topic
Religion
- The philosopher Justin of Nablus is executed in Rome as a Christian.
- Discourse to the Greek (Oratio ad Graecos), by the Syrian Tatian, is the first treatise on the evils of paganism in Christian literature.
Births
- Macrinus, Roman emperor (approximate date)
Deaths
- Justin Martyr, early apologist for Christianity
- Claudius Ptolemaeus, Greek astronomer (approximate date)
- Empress Deng Mengnu, wife of Emperor Huan of Han
- Elpinice (daughter of Herodes Atticus)