What is 117?
{{Year nav|117}} {{Year in other calendars}} [[File:RomanEmpire 117.svg|thumb|The Roman Empire is the biggest in the years 116 and 117]] __NOTOC__ Year '''117''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) 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 writing of 117 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the normal method in [[Europe]] for naming years. == 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]] &ndash; [[Trajan]], Roman emperor (b. [[AD 53]]) * [[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 == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:117}} [[Category:117| ]]