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 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

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
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	阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 26 or −355 or −1127     — to — 阳金龙年 (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.