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117 is a common year starting on a Thursday.

Events

After January 5th: Quintus Marcius Turbo replaces Marcus Rutilius Lupus as Prefect of Egypt (late August 117). He repressed the revolt of the Jews of Cyrene and Egypt.
After crushing the revolt in Mesopotamia, Lusius Quietus was appointed by Trajan governor of Judea; It is exerting brutal repression to maintain peace in the region. After their revolt, the Jews of Cyprus are prohibited from staying on the island.

Summer: the repeated attacks of the Sarmatians and Roxolans provoke an attempt at uprising of the submissive Dace; Hadrian personally intervened in 119.
June: The siege of Hatra in Syria failed by Trajan, who returned to Antioch where he fell ill.
7 August: Trajan, on his deathbed, adopts Hadrian under the influence of his wife Plotine and designates him as his heir. He died in Selinunte de Cilicia when he returned from the war in the East; During its reign, the Roman Empire reached its maximum geographical extension.
August 11, Antioch: beginning of the reign of Hadrian, Roman emperor (end of 138).
Hadrian signed a treaty with the Parthians and abandoned Mesopotamia, Armenia and Assyria to restore peace at the borders of the empire. Osroes regained his throne and Parthamaspates obtained the kingdom of Osrhoene, vassal of Rome.
The great officers of Trajan, opposed to this policy, were in jeopardy in the "consular plot", and would be executed in July 118.
14 October: parthic games in Rome in honor of Trajan, who receives the apotheosis.

Birth in 117

26 November: Aelius Aristide, Greek rhetor and philosopher.

Deaths in 117

August 7th: Trajan, Roman emperor.
Dion Chrysostom, Greek rhetor and philosopher (born 40).
Archigen, a Syrian Roman doctor.

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