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

Year 101 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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.