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AD 108

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ24431 ↗
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Year 108 (CVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday 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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Roman Empire

Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus and Marcus Atilius Bradua become Roman Consuls.

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Arts and sciences

Tacitus writes Histories, which covers the period from AD 69 to AD 96.

The Hypogeum of Yarhai, an underground tomb from the Syrian city of Palmyra dedicated to the family of Yarhai, is built.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 124-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where year can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “AD 108” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.