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Years: 97 98 99 100 - 101 - 102 103 104 105

Decades: 70s 80s 90s - 100s - 110s 120s 130s

Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century

Events

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

• Religion
  • The Chinese (Tibetans) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.

• Arts and Sciences
  • 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 celebreties -- for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

Births

• Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician
• Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer.

Deaths

• 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.af:101

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