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  • Roman Empire
    117
    Roman Empire

    Trajan suppressed the Kitos War

    Roman Empire
    117

    Trajan suppressed the Kitos War, a Jewish uprising across the eastern provinces.




  • Roman Empire (most-probablyin Turkey)
    117
    Roman Empire

    Hadrian as heir

    Roman Empire (most-probablyin Turkey)
    117

    Failure to nominate an heir could invite chaotic, destructive wresting of power by a succession of competing claimants – a civil war. Too early a nomination could be seen as an abdication, and reduce the chance for an orderly transmission of power. As Trajan lay dying, nursed by his wife, Plotina, and closely watched by Perfect Attianus, he could have lawfully adopted Hadrian as heir, by means of a simple deathbed wish, expressed before witnesses; but when an adoption document was eventually presented, it was signed not by Trajan but by Plotina, and was dated the day after Trajan's death.




  • Selinus, Cilicia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Wednesday Aug 11, 117
    Roman Empire

    Trajan died

    Selinus, Cilicia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Wednesday Aug 11, 117

    Early in 117, Trajan grew ill and set out to sail back to Italy. His health declined throughout the spring and summer of 117, something publicly acknowledged by the fact that a bronze bust displayed at the time in the public baths of Ancyra showed him clearly aged and emaciated. After reaching Selinus (modern Gazipaşa) in Cilicia, which was afterward called Trajanopolis, he suddenly died from edema, probably on 11 August.




  • Roman Empire
    Wednesday Aug 11, 117
    Roman Empire

    Hadrian

    Roman Empire
    Wednesday Aug 11, 117

    Despite his own excellence as a military administrator, Hadrian's reign was marked more by the defense of the empire's vast territories, rather than major military conflicts.




  • Roman Empire
    117
    Roman Empire

    Four executions

    Roman Empire
    117

    Hadrian relieved Judea's governor, the outstanding Moorish general Lusius Quietus, of his personal guard of Moorish auxiliaries; then he moved on to quell disturbances along the Danube frontier. There was no public trial for the four – they were tried in absentia, hunted down, and killed. Hadrian claimed that Attianus had acted on his own initiative, and rewarded him with senatorial status and consular rank; then pensioned him off, no later than 120. Hadrian assured the senate that henceforth their ancient right to prosecute and judge their own would be respected. In Rome, Hadrian's former guardian and current Praetorian Prefect, Attianus, claimed to have uncovered a conspiracy involving Lusius Quietus and three other leading senators, Lucius Publilius Celsus, Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus, and Gaius Avidius Nigrinus.




  • Cyprus
    117 BC
    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra's father

    Cyprus
    117 BC

    Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Philopator Philadelphos was a Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt.




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