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This article is about the year 101. For the number, see 101 (number). For other uses, see 101 (disambiguation).
Millennium: 1st millennium 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 Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments – Disestablishments 101 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 101
CIAb urbe condita 854 Armenian calendar N/A Assyrian calendar 4851 Bahá'í calendar -1743–-1742 Bengali calendar -492 Berber calendar 1051 English Regnal year N/A Buddhist calendar 645 Burmese calendar -537 Byzantine calendar 5609–5610 Chinese calendar 庚子年十一月十四日
(2737/2797-11-14)— to —辛丑年十一月廿四日
(2738/2798-11-24)Coptic calendar -183–-182 Ethiopian calendar 93–94 Hebrew calendar 3861–3862 Hindu calendars - Bikram Samwat 157–158 - Shaka Samvat 23–24 - Kali Yuga 3202–3203 Holocene calendar 10101 Iranian calendar 521 BP – 520 BP Islamic calendar 537 BH – 536 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 2434 Minguo calendar 1811 before ROC
民前1811年Thai solar calendar 644 Year 101 (CI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Paetus (or, less frequently, year 854 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 101 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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Roman Empire set by Augustus.
- The Second Battle of Tapae is fought.
- Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.
By topic
Religion
- The 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.[citation needed]
Births
- Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician (d. 177)
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 may have died this year 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)
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