101 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st 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 BC – 100 BC 99 BC 98 BC

101 BC in other calendars

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
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	3001–3002
Holocene calendar	9900
Iranian calendar	722 BP – 721 BP
Islamic calendar	744 BH – 743 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2233
Minguo calendar	2012 before ROC 民前2012年
Seleucid era	211/212 AG
Thai solar calendar	442–443

Year 101 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Aquillius (or, less frequently, year 653 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 101 BC 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 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.