Editing AD 100 (section)

==== 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>