101

This page relates to the year 101 Calendrier Julien.

Events

• Beginning of the second war of the Daces. (end in 106).

• Trajan leaves Rome the March 25th, crosses the the Danube and enters the Banat in spring. It must go to the help of the lower troops of Mésie attacked by the Daces and their allies. Trajan is victorious with the Bataille of Tapae, on the southernmost Bistra, in Dobroudja (autumn). The meeting is not decisive.
• the king of the Daces Décébale has 200  000 men. The Roman army, reinforced during the second war, has 150  000 with 175  000 men. Forwarding was lengthily prepared: boring of a road through the mountain, digging of a channel to circumvent the falls of the the Danube (100-101), construction of a bridge on the river, twenty piles stone, length of 1,2  Km with Drobeta (103 - 105).

• Plutarque writes its parallel Vies of the Greek and the Romains

Births in 101

• Ptolémée mathematician, astronomer and Greek geographer .

Death in 101

• Silius Italicus, Latin poet (born in 25).

• Holy Jean the Evangelist, perhaps bishop of Éphèse.

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