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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)

Syria: 411/412 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Roman Empire

• Sextus Julius Frontinus Emperor Trajan and Roman consuls are.
• Establishment of a military camp in Timgad / Algeria; it is the junction of 6 Roman roads.

Asia

• 100: Kanishka is the successor of Vima Kadphises as ruler of the Indian Kushan Empire.

Largest cities of the world in 100

Science and Technology

• At the completion of the section of the Danube - south road is carved by the Romans, the Tabula Traiana in the cliffs of the Iron Gate in today's Romania.

Culture

• Around the year 100 can already be about 80 wines on offer the taverns of the Roman Empire.

• 100: The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán is built.

Born

• 100: Anicetus, Bishop of Rome († 166 )
• 100: Hegesippus, is considered the first church historian according to Luke ( † 180 )
• 100: Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Roman grammarian, rhetorician and lawyer († 170)
• 100: Justin Martyr, a Christian martyr and father of the Church († 165)
• 100: Peregrinus Proteus, Greek philosopher († 165)
• 100: Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek scientist († 175 )

Died

• 100: Domitia Decidiana, Roman nobles
• 100: Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento, Roman politician
• 100: Silius Italicus, Roman politician and poet (c. 25)
• 100: Gaius Musonius Rufus, the Roman philosopher ( * before 30)