117

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century – 2nd century – 3rd century
Decades:	80s 90s 100s – 110s – 120s 130s 140s
Years:	114 115 116 – 117 – 118 119 120

117 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 117 (CXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Trajan subdues a Jewish revolt (the Kitos War), then falls seriously ill, leaving Hadrian in command of the east.
On his death bed, Trajan adopts Hadrian and designates him as his successor.
August 9—Emperor Trajan dies, leaving the Roman Empire at its maximal territorial extent.
Hadrian, who will reign until 138, succeeds him.
- Hadrian, a Spaniard like Trajan, is an excellent officer who has had a brilliant career. He is well-cultured man, who as Emperor inaugurates a civil government, giving up the policy of conquest of his predecessor in order to consolidate the empire.
Hadrian returns large parts of Mesopotamia to the Parthians as part of a peace settlement.
Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome.

Hermione of Ephesus, Maurus, Pantalemon and Sergius, Astius and several others – Christian martyrs in persecution of Trajan
August 9—Trajan, Roman emperor (illness)
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (approximate date)

The Roman Empire reached its maximal extent between 116 and 117 AD.