阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 231 or −150 or −922 — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 232 or −149 or −921
Year105 (CV) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar. At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Candidus and Iulius (or, less frequently,year 858Ab urbe condita). The denomination 105 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Pacorus II of Parthia dies after a 27-year reign, in which he has reclaimed all of his empire. His successorVologases III reigns until 147 AD, suppressing brief rebellions, as he battles against theKushan andAlani.
EmperorHe Di dies after a 17-year reign in which courteunuchs and the emperor's in-laws have regained influence. EmpressDeng Sui places her sonShang Di (barely 3 months old) on thethrone, as the fifthemperor of the Chinese EasternHan dynasty.
Last year (17th) ofyongyuan era and start ofyuanxing era of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty.[clarification needed]
Papermaking is refined by the Chinese eunuchCai Lun, who receives official praise from the emperor for his methods of making paper from tree bark,hemp, remnantrags andfish nets. Paper had been made inChina from the2nd century BC, but Cai Lun's paper provides a writing surface far superior to puresilk and is much less costly to produce.Bamboo and wooden slips will remain the usual materials forbooks andscrolls in most of the world for another 200 years, and paper will remain a Chinese secret for 500 years.
TheTrajan Bridge is finished. For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.[2]
^LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001).A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 271.ISBN0-631-21858-0.
^In terms of overall length, the bridge seems to have been surpassed by another Roman bridge across the Danube,Constantine's Bridge, a little-known structure whose length is given with 2437 m (Tudor 1974, p. 139;Galliazzo 1994, p. 319).
Tudor, D. (1974), "Le pont de Constantin le Grand à Celei",Les ponts romains du Bas-Danube, Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae Études, vol. 51, Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, pp. 135–166
