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159 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 159
CLIX
Ab urbe condita 912
Assyrian calendar 4909
Balinese saka calendar 80–81
Bengali calendar −434
Berber calendar 1109
Buddhist calendar 703
Burmese calendar −479
Byzantine calendar 5667–5668
Chinese calendar 戊戌年 (Earth  Dog)
2856 or 2649
     to 
己亥年 (Earth  Pig)
2857 or 2650
Coptic calendar −125 – −124
Discordian calendar 1325
Ethiopian calendar 151–152
Hebrew calendar 3919–3920
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 215–216
 - Shaka Samvat 80–81
 - Kali Yuga 3259–3260
Holocene calendar 10159
Iranian calendar 463 BP – 462 BP
Islamic calendar 477 BH – 476 BH
Javanese calendar 35–36
Julian calendar 159
CLIX
Korean calendar 2492
Minguo calendar 1753 before ROC
民前1753年
Nanakshahi calendar −1309
Seleucid era 470/471 AG
Thai solar calendar 701–702
Tibetan calendar 阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
285 or −96 or −868
     to 
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
286 or −95 or −867

Year 159 ( CLIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time in Roman territories, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintillus and Priscus (or, less frequently, year 912 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 159 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.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">208</span> Calendar year

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Cao Teng, courtesy name Jixing, was a eunuch who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty of China. He served four Han emperors. Through his adopted son Cao Song, he was the grandfather of Cao Cao, who laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period. On 3 August 229, during the reign of Cao Cao's grandson Cao Rui, Cao Teng was posthumously honoured as "Emperor Gao of Wei" (魏高帝), becoming the only eunuch in Chinese officialdom to have this honor.

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