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Year '''101''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] 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 ====
* [[Trajan]] begins his fourth consulship.<ref name=leglay>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=Second | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=271 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>
* Emperor Trajan starts an expedition against [[Dacia]],<ref name=leglay/> exceeding the limits of the [[Roman Empire]] set by [[Augustus]].<ref name="Romanis REquote05">{{cite web|url=http://www.roman-emperors.org/assobd.htm#t-inx|title=De Imperatoribus Romanis|website=An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors|access-date=8 November 2007|quote=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.}}</ref>
* [[Third Battle of Tapae]]: Roman forces, led by Trajan, defeat the Dacian king [[Decebalus]] in [[Transylvania]].<ref name="Romanis REquote03">{{cite web|title=Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. 105: De Imperatoribus Romanis|url=http://www.roman-emperors.org/assobd.htm#t-inx|website=An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors|access-date=8 November 2007|quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceD">{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Nicholas |chapter=First Dacian War |title=Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror |publisher=GreenHill Books |location=UK |edition=1st |date=2022 |isbn=978-1784387075}}</ref>

=== By topic ===
==== Literature ====
* [[Epictetus]] writes and publishes ''[[The Discourses of Epictetus]]'' (approximate date).

== Births ==
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Lucius Aelius|Lucius Aelius Caesar]], Roman politician (d. [[AD 138|138]])
* [[Felicitas of Rome]], Christian female [[martyr]] (d. [[165]])
* [[Herodes Atticus]], [[Hellenistic Greece|Greek]] rhetoritician (d. [[177]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Pope Clement I|Clement I]], bishop of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] ([[epistle]] to the [[Roman Corinth|Corinth]]ians) (or 102 according to Roman Catholic tradition)
* [[Gan Ying]], Chinese ambassador of the [[Han dynasty]] 
* [[Jia Kui (scholar)|Jia Kui]], Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. [[AD 30]])
* [[Silius Italicus]], Roman politician and author of the ''[[Punica (poem)|Punica]]'' (annals of [[Hannibal]] during the [[Second Punic War]]) (b. c. [[AD 28]])

== References ==
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