145

The year 145 (CXLV) was a common year beginning on a Thursday of the Julian calendar, in force on that date.

In the Roman Empire the year was named the year of the consulship of Hadrian and Caesar, or less frequently, as 898 ab urbe condita, being its denomination as 145 at the beginning of the Middle Ages, when establishing the anno Domini.

Events

• Antonino Augusto Pio and his adopted son (who will be one of his successors) Marco Aurelio César exercise the consulate. Both had shared consular dignity five years earlier, in 140.
• Marco Aurelio married Faustina la Menor, a daughter of Antonino Pio.
• Flavio Arriano becomes an archer of Athens.

Births

• 11 April: Septimius Severo, Roman emperor (m. 211)

Deaths

• Plauto Silvano, Roman noble.
• Han Chongdi, emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty (n. 143)