101

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 CI
Ab urbe condita	854
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1743 – -1742
Bengali calendar	-492
Berber calendar	1051
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
Thai solar calendar	644

Year 101 (CI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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.

Births

Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician

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)