101

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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

This article is about the year. For other uses, see 101 (disambiguation).

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Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Empire set by Augustus.
The Battle of Tapae is fought.
Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.

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.

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 around 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)

101 by topic v • d • e
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments