Editing AD 117

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[[File:RomanEmpire 117.svg|thumb|The Roman Empire reaches its maximal extent between 116 and 117]]
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Year '''117''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Niger and Apronianus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 870 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 117 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Trajan]] falls seriously ill, leaving [[Hadrian]] in command of the east. On his death bed, Trajan allegedly adopts Hadrian and designates him as his successor.
* [[August 9]] - [[August 11|11]] &ndash; Emperor Trajan dies of a [[stroke]] at Selinus in [[Cilicia]], age 63, while en route from Mesopotamia to [[Italy]], leaving the [[Roman Empire]] at its maximal territorial extent. 
* Hadrian, who will reign until [[AD 138|138]], succeeds him. 
** Hadrian, a Spaniard like Trajan, as Emperor inaugurates a policy of retrenchment and cultural integration, giving up the policy of conquest of his predecessor in order to consolidate the empire. 
* The Jewish [[Diaspora Revolt]] is quelled, likely by autumn 117, though unrest may have persisted in Egypt until early 118. Its suppression results in the near-complete expulsion of Jews from [[Cyrenaica]], [[Roman Cyprus|Cyprus]], and several regions of [[Roman Egypt|Egypt]].
* Hadrian returns large parts of [[Mesopotamia]] to the [[Parthian Empire|Parthians]], as part of a peace settlement.
* Construction begins on the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in Rome.
* The [[Roman Empire]] reaches its greatest extent.

=== By topic ===
==== Commerce ====
* The [[silver]] content of the Roman [[denarius]] falls to 87 percent under emperor Hadrian, down from 93 percent in the reign of Trajan.

==== Religion ====
* [[John I (bishop of Jerusalem)|John I]] becomes the 7th [[Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem|Bishop of Jerusalem]].

== Births ==
* [[Aelius Aristides]], Greek [[orator]] (d. [[181]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wee |first1=John Z. |title=The Comparable Body – Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine |date=2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004356771 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zSk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA247|language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[August 8]] – [[Trajan]], Roman emperor (b. [[AD 53]])<ref name=leglay>{{cite book | title=A History of Rome | edition=2nd | first1=Marcel | last1=LeGlay | first2=Jean-Louis | last2=Voisin | first3=Yann | last3=Le Bohec | page=278 | publisher=Blackwell | place=Malden, Massachusetts | year=2001 | isbn=0-631-21858-0}}</ref>
* [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], Roman [[historian]] (b. [[AD 56]]) 
* [[Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus]], Roman [[legatus|general]] in [[Judaea (Roman province)|Judea]] (b. [[AD 70]])
* [[Hermione of Ephesus]], [[Maurus, Pantalemon and Sergius]], [[Astius]] and several other Christian martyrs in persecution by Trajan

== References ==
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