The eastern hemisphere in 100 AD

The world in 100

Year 100 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.
• 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.

Religion

• Appearance of the first Christian dogma and formulas regarding morality.
• 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