100

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	70s  80s  90s  – 100s –  110s  120s  130s
Years:	97 98 99 – 100 – 101 102 103

100 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

100 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	100 C
Ab urbe condita	853
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1744 – -1743
Bengali calendar	-493
Berber calendar	1050
Buddhist calendar	644
Burmese calendar	-538
Byzantine calendar	5608 – 5609
Chinese calendar	己亥年十二月初二日 (2736/2796-12-2) — to — 庚子年十一月十三日 (2737/2797-11-13)
Coptic calendar	-184 – -183
Ethiopian calendar	92 – 93
Hebrew calendar	3860 – 3861
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	156 – 157
- Shaka Samvat	22 – 23
- Kali Yuga	3201 – 3202
Holocene calendar	10100
Iranian calendar	522 BP – 521 BP
Islamic calendar	538 BH – 537 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2433
Thai solar calendar	643

Year 100 (C) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Trajan and Sextus Julius Frontinus become Roman Consul.
• Bricks become the primary building material in the Roman Empire.
• Pliny the Younger advances to consulship, giving his panegyric on Trajan in the process.
• The Roman Army reaches 300,000 soldiers.
• Tiberius Avidius Quietus' rule as governor of Roman Britain ends.
• Timgad (Thamugas), a Roman colonial town in North Africa is founded by Trajan.
• Trajan creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of Italy.

Europe

• Lions have become extinct in the Balkans by this date.

Asia

• Pakores (last king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom) takes the throne.
• Paper is used by the general populace in China, starting around this year.
• The Kingdom of Himyarite is conquered by the Hadramaut.

Americas

• The Hopewell tradition begins in what is now Ohio circa this date.
• Teotihuacan, at the center of Mexico, reaches a population of 50,000.
• The Moche civilization emerges, and starts building an advanced society in present-day Peru.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• In China, the wheelbarrow makes its first appearance.
• 100–112 – Main hall, Markets of Trajan, Rome, is made.

Religion

• Appearance of the first Christian dogma and formulas regarding morality.
• The Gospel of John is widely believed to have been written around this date. ^[1]
• The compilation of the Kama sutra begins in India.
• The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo, China.
• The Fourth Buddhist Council is convened circa this year.

Births

• Justin Martyr, Christian apologist (approximate date)
• Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate (approximate date)

Deaths

• Agrippa II of Judea
• Josephus, Jewish historian

References