AD 144

"144 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 144 BC.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	120s 130s 140s 150s 160s
Years:	141 142 143 144 145 146 147

144 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	144 CXLIV
Ab urbe condita	897
Assyrian calendar	4894
Balinese saka calendar	65–66
Bengali calendar	−449
Berber calendar	1094
Buddhist calendar	688
Burmese calendar	−494
Byzantine calendar	5652–5653
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 2841 or 2634     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2842 or 2635
Coptic calendar	−140 – −139
Discordian calendar	1310
Ethiopian calendar	136–137
Hebrew calendar	3904–3905
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	200–201
- Shaka Samvat	65–66
- Kali Yuga	3244–3245
Holocene calendar	10144
Iranian calendar	478 BP – 477 BP
Islamic calendar	493 BH – 492 BH
Javanese calendar	19–20
Julian calendar	144 CXLIV
Korean calendar	2477
Minguo calendar	1768 before ROC 民前1768年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1324
Seleucid era	455/456 AG
Thai solar calendar	686–687
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 270 or −111 or −883     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 271 or −110 or −882

Year 144 (CXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufus and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 897 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 144 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus and Titus Statilius Maximus become Roman Consuls.
• The Roman campaigns in Mauretania begin.

Asia

• Change of era name from Hanan (3rd year) to Jiankang era of the Chinese Han dynasty.
• Change of emperor from Han Shundi to Han Chongdi of the Han dynasty.
• Reign of Huvishka, emperor of the Kushan Empire.

By topic

Religion

• Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Polycarpus II to Athendodorus (until 148).
• Marcion of Sinope is excommunicated; a sect, Marcionism, grows out of his beliefs.

Births

• Kahiko-Lue-Mea, Hawaiian ruler

Deaths

• September 20 – Han Shundi, Chinese emperor (b. 115)
• Polemon of Laodicea, Greek sophist (b. c. AD 90)