101
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- This article is about the year 101. For other uses, see 101 (number).
| Centuries: | 1st century · 2nd century · 3rd century |
| Decades: | 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 120s 130s |
| Years: | 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 |
| 101 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 101 CI |
| Ab urbe condita | 854 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Chinese calendar | 2797 – 2798 庚子 – 辛丑 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 93 – 94 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3861 – 3862 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 156 – 157 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 23 – 24 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3202 – 3203 |
| Iranian calendar | 521 BP – 520 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 537 BH – 536 BH |
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Empire set by Augustus.
- Battle of Tapae
- Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.
By topic
Religion
- The Chinese (Tibetans) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.
Arts and Sciences
- Plutarch writes his Parallel lives of famous men (in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities -- for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.
Births
- Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician
- Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer.
Deaths
- Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) although he never reached there.
- John the Apostle dies in Ephesus.
- Saint Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, during the last decade of the first century.
- Silius Italicus, author of Punicus, the annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War.