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Year '''147''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXLVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Messalinus and Largus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 900 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''').<ref>Jarvis, Samuel Farmar. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ifNiAAAAcAAJ&dq=Consulship%20of%20Messalinus&pg=PA286 A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church: Being a New Inquiry Into the True Dates of the Birth and Death of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and Containing an Original Harmony of the Four Gospels, Now First Arranged in the Order of Time]''. W.J. Cleaver, 1844. 286.</ref> The denomination 147 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.