100

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

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) is founded by Emperor 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.
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

Translation

The word "100" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Azeri, Banyumasan, Belarusian, Belarusian (Taraškievica), Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Swahili, Latin, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Lombard, Hungarian, Macedonian, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Uzbek, Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Tahitian, Romanian, Quechua, Sakha, Albanian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, Waray-Waray.

Translation(s) in other languages: Amharic: 100 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:100, Bengali: ১০০, Bihari: १००, Persian: ۱۰۰ (میلادی), Gan: 100年, Korean: 100년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১০০, Haitian: 100 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 100 m., Marathi: इ.स. १००, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १००, Japanese: 100年, Oriya: ୧୦୦, Pali: १००, Ripuarian: Joohr 100, Russian: 100 год, Sanskrit: १००, Thai: พ.ศ. 643, Urdu: 100ء, Classical Chinese: 公元百年, Chinese: 100年.