| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 285 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 285 CCLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1038 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5035 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 206–207 |
| Bengali calendar | −308 |
| Berber calendar | 1235 |
| Buddhist calendar | 829 |
| Burmese calendar | −353 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5793–5794 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2982 or 2775 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2983 or 2776 |
| Coptic calendar | 1–2 |
| Discordian calendar | 1451 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 277–278 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4045–4046 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 341–342 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 206–207 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3385–3386 |
| Holocene calendar | 10285 |
| Iranian calendar | 337 BP – 336 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 347 BH – 346 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 165–166 |
| Julian calendar | 285 CCLXXXV |
| Korean calendar | 2618 |
| Minguo calendar | 1627 before ROC 民前1627年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1183 |
| Seleucid era | 596/597 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 827–828 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 411 or 30 or −742 — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 412 or 31 or −741 |
The year 285 (CCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the "Year of the Consulship of Carinus and Aurelius" (or, less frequently, "year 1038 Ab urbe condita"). The denomination 285 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.