AD 101

"101 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 101 BC.

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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	80s 90s 100s 110s 120s
Years:	98 99 100 101 102 103 104

101 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	101 CI
Ab urbe condita	854
Assyrian calendar	4851
Balinese saka calendar	22–23
Bengali calendar	−492
Berber calendar	1051
Buddhist calendar	645
Burmese calendar	−537
Byzantine calendar	5609–5610
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2798 or 2591     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2799 or 2592
Coptic calendar	−183 – −182
Discordian calendar	1267
Ethiopian calendar	93–94
Hebrew calendar	3861–3862
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	157–158
- Shaka Samvat	22–23
- Kali Yuga	3201–3202
Holocene calendar	10101
Iranian calendar	521 BP – 520 BP
Islamic calendar	537 BH – 536 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	101 CI
Korean calendar	2434
Minguo calendar	1811 before ROC 民前1811年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1367
Seleucid era	412/413 AG
Thai solar calendar	643–644
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 227 or −154 or −926     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 228 or −153 or −925

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Trajan begins his fourth consulship.^[1]
• Emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia,^[1] exceeding the limits of the Roman Empire set by Augustus.^[2]
• Third Battle of Tapae: Roman forces, led by Trajan, defeated the Dacian king Decebalus in Transylvania.^[3][4]

By topic

Literature

• Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses of Epictetus (approximate date).

Births

• January 13 – Lucius Aelius Caesar, Roman politician (d. 138)
• Felicitas of Rome, Christian female martyr (d. 165)
• Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician (d. 177)

Deaths

• Clement I, bishop of Rome (epistle to the Corinthians) (or 102 according to Roman Catholic tradition)
• Gan Ying, Chinese ambassador of the Han dynasty
• Jia Kui, Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. AD 30)
• Silius Italicus, Roman politician and author of the Punica (annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War) (b. c. AD 28)

References

1. LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History of Rome (Second ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. p. 271. ISBN 0-631-21858-0.
2. "De Imperatoribus Romanis". An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. Retrieved November 8, 2007. Because the Dacians represented an obstacle against Roman expansion in the east, in the year 101 the emperor Trajan decided to begin a new campaign against them. The first war began on 25 March 101 and the Roman troops, consisting of four principal legions (X Gemina, XI Claudia, II Traiana Fortis, and XXX Ulpia Victrix), defeated the Dacians.
3. "Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. 105: De Imperatoribus Romanis". An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. Retrieved November 8, 2007. Although the Dacians had been defeated, the emperor postponed the final siege for the conquering of Sarmizegetuza because his armies needed reorganization. Trajan imposed on the Dacians very hard peace conditions: Decebalus had to renounce claim to part of his kingdom, including the Banat, Tara Hategului, Oltenia, and Muntenia in the area south-west of Transylvania. He had also to surrender all the Roman deserters and all his war machines. At Rome, Trajan was received as a winner and he took the name of Dacicus, a title that appears on his coinage of this period. At the beginning of the year 103 A.D., there were minted coins with the inscription: IMP NERVA TRAIANVS AVG GER DACICVS.
4. Jackson, Nicholas (2022). "First Dacian War". Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror (1st ed.). UK: GreenHill Books. ISBN 978-1784387075.