117

Calendar overview 117

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117
The Roman Emperor Trajan dies.
His wife Plotina kept his death a secret for several days.	Hadrian ascends the throne as successor.
117 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	109/110
Buddhist calendar	660/661 (southern Buddhism); 659/660 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	46th (47th) cycle , year of the fire-serpent丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year fire-dragon 丙辰)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 223rd / 1st year of the 224th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3877/78 (September 13-14)
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DCCCLXX (870)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 427/428 (turn of the year April); Syria: 428/429 (New Year October)
Spanish era	155
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	173/174 (turn of the year April)

Events

Quintus Aquilius Niger and Marcus Rebilus Apronianus are consuls in the Roman Empire .

Roman provinces under Trajan (117 AD)

Under Trajan , the Roman Empire reached the greatest expansion in its history. On the way back to Rome from a campaign against the Parthians , however, he died on August 8 in Selinus . Hadrian , supposedly adopted by him on his deathbed, succeeds him as emperor on the throne. But it soon became apparent that Rome would not be able to hold the newly conquered territories. Hadrian gives up most of the territories in the east that Trajan conquered in the next few years. As early as 117 he gave the province of Mesopotamia back to the Parthians and moved the border to the Euphrates . The new emperor wants to limit himself to securing the existing and thus ends the expansive foreign policy of the Roman Empire for centuries .
The Jewish diaspora uprising in the north African provinces of the empire is crushed after two years. When Alexandria is taken, the synagogue there is destroyed. Thousands of Jews are victims of retaliation.

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