101 BC Facts for Kids

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 various 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

The Roman consuls Gaius Marius and Manius Aquillius defeat the Cimbri in the Battle of Campi Raudii (or Battle of Vercellae).

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.