101 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 3rd century BC2nd century BC1st century BC
Decades: 130s BC  120s BC  110s BC  – 100s BC –  90s BC  80s BC  70s BC
Years: 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC – 101 BC100 BC 99 BC 98 BC
101 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
101 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar101 BC
C BC
Ab urbe condita653
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 223
- PharaohPtolemy X Alexander, 7
Ancient Greek era169th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4650
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−693
Berber calendar850
Buddhist calendar444
Burmese calendar−738
Byzantine calendar5408–5409
Chinese calendar己卯(Earth Rabbit)
2596 or 2536
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
2597 or 2537
Coptic calendar−384 – −383
Discordian calendar1066
Ethiopian calendar−108 – −107
Hebrew calendar3660–3661
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−44 – −43
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3000–3001
Holocene calendar9900
Iranian calendar722 BP – 721 BP
Islamic calendar744 BH – 743 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2233
Minguo calendar2012 before ROC
民前2012年
Nanakshahi calendar−1568
Seleucid era211/212 AG
Thai solar calendar442–443
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
26 or −355 or −1127
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
27 or −354 or −1126


Year 101 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

  • The Roman consuls Gaius Marius and Manius Aquillius defeat the Cimbri in the Battle of Campi Raudii (or Battle of Vercellae).

Libya

  • Ptolemy Apion inherits the kingdom of Cyrenaica.


Deaths

  • Cleopatra III of Egypt assassinated by her son Ptolemy X Alexander I (b. 161 BC)
  • Boiorix, king of the Cimbri tribe, killed at the Battle of Vercellae.