117

This page relates to the year 117 Calendrier Julien.

Events

a general insurrection bursts in Mésopotamie: Séleucie of the Tiger, Nisibe, Edesse drive out their garrisons; a Roman legion is entirely destroyed. Trajan represses the movement, but must make concessions. Without giving up its annexations in Mésopotamie, it reconstitutes a Parthian kingdom decreased in territory and placed under Roman suzerainty.
the Juifs of Cyprus are prohibited of stay on the island.
Failure of the seat of Hatra in Syria by Trajan.
Trajan, on its bed of death, adopts Hadrian and designates it as its heir. He dies in Sélinonte de Cilicie at the time of his return of the war in the East; under its reign, the Roman empire reached its maximum geographical extension.

Hadrian, Spaniard like Trajan, is an excellent officer who has achieves a brilliant career. Is especially a cultivated man and an administrator who inaugurates a civil government, giving up the policy of conquest of its predecessor to consolidate the empire.
Hadrian sign a treaty with the Parthes and gives up the Mésopotamie, the Arménie and the Assyrie to restore peace at the borders of the empire.
the large officers of Trajan, opposed to this policy, compromise themselves in the “plot of consular”, and will be carried out in 118.

the repeated attacks of the Sarmates cause an attempt at rising of the Daces subjected (117 - 118).
Flowering of Palmyre, which trades with Low the Mésopotamie and Rome.
the Roman Historien Tacite publishes the Annales , a history of Rome since the death of Octave Auguste.
the perception of taxes replaces with Rome the leasing.
Saint Ignace is thrown to the animals like Christian (or 107).
Beginning of the construction of the Odéon of Lyon (117 - 132).
Constuction of the basilica plotine of Nimes (117 - 138).

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