205

Year 205 (CCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. 

 Events 
 By place 
 Roman Empire 
 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and his brother Publius Septimius Geta Caesar become Roman Consuls.
 Hadrian's Wall is fixed.
 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect and father-in-law of Caracalla, is killed.
 Aemilius Papinianus becomes praetorian prefect.
 Asia 
 Cao Cao defeats and kills Yuan Tan, the eldest son of his rival Yuan Shao, in the Battle of Nanpi

 Births 
 Cao Rui, second emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 239)
 Sima Wang, general of Wei and the Jin Dynasty (d. 271)
 Shan Tao, Chinese taoist (d. 283)
 Plotinus (according to his student Porphyry) (d. 270)
 Xin Xianying, daughter of Xin Pi (d. 284)

 Deaths 
 Guo Tu, advisor under Yuan Shao
 Yuan Tan, eldest son of Yuan Shao