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In the [[Roman Empire]], it was sometimes referred to as '''year 853 ''[[ab urbe condita]]''''', i.e., 853 years since the [[founding of Rome]] in 753 B.C. The denomination AD 100 for this year has been used since the [[Early Middle Ages]], when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

This year saw [[Pacores]], the last king of the [[Indo-Parthian kingdom]], ascend to the throne. In the Americas, the [[Moche culture]] developed around this time, and [[Teotihuacan]], a major city at the centre of modern-day [[Mexico]], reached a population of around 60,000–80,000.

== Events ==
=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====

* Emperor [[Trajan]] and [[Frontinus]] become [[Roman consul|Roman consuls]].
* [[Roman brick|Bricks]] become the primary building material in the [[Roman Empire]].
* [[Pliny the Younger]] advances to [[consulship]], giving his [[panegyric]] on Trajan in the process.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkgTbON-GGUC&pg=PA254 |title=The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-38421-4 |editor1=Peter V. Jones |location=Cambridge |page=254 |editor2=Keith C. Sidwell}}</ref>
* The [[Imperial Roman army]] reaches 300,000 soldiers.
* [[Titus Avidius Quietus]]' rule as governor of [[Roman Britain]] ends.<ref>Birley, ''Fasti'', p. 86. In a note on that page, Birley quotes [[Ronald Syme]]'s observation on that period of the Roman Empire, "there was some danger of gerontocracy."</ref>
* [[Timgad]] (Thamugas), a Roman colonial town in [[North Africa]], is founded by Trajan.<ref>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=Second | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=271 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>
* Trajan creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of [[Roman Italy|Italy]].
* The future emperor, [[Hadrian]], marries [[Vibia Sabina]].<ref>Robert H. Allen, ''The Classical Origins of Modern Homophobia'', Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2349-1}}, p.{{nbsp}}120</ref>

==== Europe ====

* [[Lion]]s have become extinct in Greece by this year.<ref name="Guggisberg1975">{{Cite book |last=Guggisberg |first=C. A. W. |title=Wild Cats of the World |publisher=Taplinger Publishing |year=1975 |isbn=978-0-8008-8324-9 |location=New York |pages=138–179 |chapter=Lion ''Panthera leo'' (Linnaeus, 1758) |chapter-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schaller |first=George B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZP1MIJWiKsC |title=The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations |date=1972 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-73640-2 |pages=5 |language=en}}</ref>

==== Asia ====

* [[Pacores]] (last king of the [[Indo-Parthian kingdom]]) takes the throne.
* [[Paper]] is used by the general populace in [[China]], starting around this year.

==== Americas ====

* The [[Hopewell tradition]] roughly begins in what is now [[Ohio]].
* [[Teotihuacan]], a major city at the centre of modern-day [[Mexico]], reaches a population of around 60,000–80,000.<ref name="State and Society at Teotihuacan, M">{{cite journal |last1=Cowgill |first1=George |date=October 1997 |title=State and Society at Teotihuacan, Mexico |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |volume=26 |pages=129–161 |doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.129}}</ref>
* The [[Moche culture]] emerges, and starts building a society in present-day [[Peru]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bawden |first=G. |title=Andean Archaeology |publisher=Blackwell Publishers |year=2004 |editor-last=Silverman |editor-first=H. |location=Oxford |chapter=The Art of Moche Politics}}</ref>

=== By topic ===

==== Arts and sciences ====
* In China, the [[wheelbarrow]] makes its first appearance.
* Main hall, [[Trajan's Market]], [[Rome]], is made (until [[AD 112]]).

==== 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.<ref>''Asimov's Guide to the Bible'', page 954.</ref>
* The compilation of the [[Kama Sutra]] begins in [[Classical India|India]].
* The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in [[Anguo]], [[China]].
* The [[Buddhist councils#The two "fourth councils"|Fourth Buddhist Council]] is convened in [[Jalandhara]], Punjab.

== Births ==
* [[Fa Zhen]] (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (d. [[188]])
* ''Approximate date''
** [[Faustina the Elder]], Roman empress (d. [[AD 140|140]])
** [[Justin Martyr]], Christian apologist and saint (d. [[165]])
** [[Marcus Cornelius Fronto]], Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate (d. [[170]])
** [[Ptolemy]], Greek astrologer, astronomer, geographer and mathematician (d. 170)
** [[Junius Rusticus|Quintus Junius Rusticus]], Roman teacher and politician (d. 170)
** [[Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens]], Roman politician (d. 170)

== Deaths ==
* [[Herod Agrippa II]], Jewish king of [[Judea]] (b. [[AD 27]])
* [[Apollonius of Tyana]], Greek philosopher (b. [[AD 15]]) 
* [[Josephus]], Jewish [[historian]] and writer (b. [[AD 37]])
* [[John the Apostle]] of [[Jesus Christ]] (approximate date, b. [[AD 6]])
* [[Wang Chong]], Chinese philosopher (b. [[AD 27]])

== References ==
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