101 BC
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| 1st millennium BC |
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| 101 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 101 BC C BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 653 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 223 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy X Alexander, 7 |
| Ancient Greek era | 169th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4650 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −693 |
| Berber calendar | 850 |
| Buddhist calendar | 444 |
| Burmese calendar | −738 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5408–5409 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2596 or 2536 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2597 or 2537 |
| Coptic calendar | −384 – −383 |
| Discordian calendar | 1066 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −108 – −107 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3660–3661 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −44 – −43 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3000–3001 |
| Holocene calendar | 9900 |
| Iranian calendar | 722 BP – 721 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 744 BH – 743 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2233 |
| Minguo calendar | 2012 before ROC 民前2012年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1568 |
| Seleucid era | 211/212 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 442–443 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 26 or −355 or −1127 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (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.
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