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Sci & Tech Chronology: In the year

85 bce

Food & agriculture

Gaius Sergius Orata develops a system for heating seawater by circulating hot air beneath tanks. Its purpose is to promote faster growth in oysters that he then sells to wealthy Romans. See also 80 bce Energy.


 
 
Wikipedia: 85 BC
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 110s BC  100s BC  90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC  60s BC  50s BC 
Years: 88 BC 87 BC 86 BC - 85 BC - 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC
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85 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 85 BC
Ab urbe condita 669
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1928 – -1927
Buddhist calendar 460
Chinese calendar 2552/2612
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
— to —
2553/2613
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
Coptic calendar -368 – -367
Ethiopian calendar -92 – -91
Hebrew calendar 36763677
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -29 – -28
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3017 – 3018
Holocene calendar 9916
Iranian calendar 706 BP – 705 BP
Islamic calendar 728 BH – 727 BH
Japanese calendar
 - Imperial Year Kōki 576
(皇紀576年)
Julian calendar -39
Korean calendar 2249
Thai solar calendar 459

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