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Also known as 117 AD, CXVII

year

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year
Part of
110s
Followed by
118
Follows
116
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category for births in this time period
Category:117 births
category for deaths in this time period
Category:117 deaths
Commons category
117
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Category:117
point in time
0117-01-01

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Encyclopedic overview

The Roman Empire reaches its maximal extent between 116 and 117

Year 117 (CXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday 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 denomination 117 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “117” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.