Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia, exceeding the limits of the Empire set by Augustus.
• Battle of Tapae
• Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses.

By topic

Religion

• The Chinese (Tibetans) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia.

Arts and Sciences

• Plutarch writes his Parallel lives of famous men (in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

Births

• Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician
• Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer.

Deaths

• Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) although he never reached there.
• John the Apostle dies around this year in Ephesus.
• Saint Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome, Epistle to the Corinthians, during the last decade of the first century.
• Silius Italicus, author of Punicus, the annals of Hannibal during the Second Punic War.