165

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	130s  140s  150s  – 160s –  170s  180s  190s
Years:	162 163 164 – 165 – 166 167 168

165 in other calendars

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	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 291 or −90 or −862     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 292 or −89 or −861

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)