AD 108

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108 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 108
CVIII
Ab urbe condita 861
Assyrian calendar 4858
Balinese saka calendar 29–30
Bengali calendar −485
Berber calendar 1058
Buddhist calendar 652
Burmese calendar −530
Byzantine calendar 5616–5617
Chinese calendar 丁未年 (Fire  Goat)
2805 or 2598
     to 
戊申年 (Earth  Monkey)
2806 or 2599
Coptic calendar −176 – −175
Discordian calendar 1274
Ethiopian calendar 100–101
Hebrew calendar 3868–3869
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 164–165
 - Shaka Samvat 29–30
 - Kali Yuga 3208–3209
Holocene calendar 10108
Iranian calendar 514 BP – 513 BP
Islamic calendar 530 BH – 529 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar 108
CVIII
Korean calendar 2441
Minguo calendar 1804 before ROC
民前1804年
Nanakshahi calendar −1360
Seleucid era 419/420 AG
Thai solar calendar 650–651
Tibetan calendar 阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
234 or −147 or −919
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
235 or −146 or −918

Year 108 ( CVIII ) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In Rome at the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Trebonius and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 861 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 108 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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