AD 125

This article is about the year 125. For the number, see 125 (number). For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 125 BC. For the dinghy, see 125 (dinghy). For the New Jersey bus, see 125 (New Jersey bus). For other uses, see 125 (disambiguation).

Year 125 (CXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullinus and Titius (or, less frequently, year 878 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 125 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.

125 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	125 CXXV
Ab urbe condita	878
Assyrian calendar	4875
Balinese saka calendar	46–47
Bengali calendar	−469 – −468
Berber calendar	1075
Buddhist calendar	669
Burmese calendar	−513
Byzantine calendar	5633–5634
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2822 or 2615     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2823 or 2616
Coptic calendar	−159 – −158
Discordian calendar	1291
Ethiopian calendar	117–118
Hebrew calendar	3885–3886
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	181–182
- Shaka Samvat	46–47
- Kali Yuga	3225–3226
Holocene calendar	10125
Iranian calendar	497 BP – 496 BP
Islamic calendar	512 BH – 511 BH
Javanese calendar	0–1
Julian calendar	125 CXXV
Korean calendar	2458
Minguo calendar	1787 before ROC 民前1787年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1343
Seleucid era	436/437 AG
Thai solar calendar	667–668
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 251 or −130 or −902     — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 252 or −129 or −901

Zhang Heng

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Pantheon is constructed (in Athens) as it stands today, by Ictinus.
• Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, starts to be built (approximate date).

Africa

• Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC^[1])

Asia

• Last (4th) year of the Yanguang era of the Chinese Han dynasty.
• Change of emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty from Han Andi to Marquis of Beixiang, then to Han Shundi.
• Gautamiputra Satakarni, a king of the Andhra dynasty, conquers the Konkan near Bombay. He then controls central India from coast to coast.
• Zhang Heng of Han dynasty China invents a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The Satires of Juvenal intimate that bread and circuses (panem et circenses) keep the Roman people happy.

Religion

• Pope Telesphorus succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope according to Roman Catholic tradition.

Births

• Aulus Gellius, Roman author and grammarian (approximate date)
• Lucian, Syrian satirist and rhetorician (approximate date)
• Lucius Ferenius, Dutch potter in Heerlen (approximate date)
• Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Roman politician (d. 193)

Deaths

• April 30 – An of Han, Chinese emperor (b. AD 94)
• December 10 – Shao (or Liu Yi), Chinese emperor
• Servius Sulpicius Similis, Roman governor
• Thamel, Roman Christian priest and martyr^[2]