101
Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century
Decades: 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s - 140s - 150s - 160s - 170s - 180s - 190s - 200s
Years: 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106
Events:
- Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia.
- Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.
- The Chinese (Tibetan) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.
- Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) although he never reached there.
- Saint John the Apostle dies 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 is also used as a suffix for "basic course in...", like: 'How to build violins 101'. It originates from having the name of a first-stage class suffixed with 101, eg. "Calculus 101" as opposed to "Calculus 203", and so on.
Note this usage is not global.
