The world in 117 AD — what happened that year

7 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

Ren Shang and Ma Xian crushed the Xianling Qiang above and below Fuping, and Longyou was pacified. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷5 孝安帝紀元初4年)

On his way back, Trajan dies of dysentery at Seleucia in Isauria. He was the only emperor buried within the city, and his ashes were placed beneath the column in the Forum. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 8.5)
Hadrian, governor of Syria, hears of his adoption by Trajan (Historia Augusta Hadr. 4.6)
He leaves Antioch to receive Trajan's remains and sends them by ship to Rome, then returns to Antioch, appoints Catilius Severus governor of Syria, and heads for Rome via Illyricum (Historia Augusta Hadr. 5.9, 5.10)

Hadrian withdraws the armies from the three provinces Trajan had added and makes the Euphrates the empire's frontier, but friends dissuade him from giving up Dacia. (Eutropius, Breviarium Eutr. 8.6)
The peoples conquered by Trajan revolt, and unrest breaks out in Mauretania, Sarmatia, Britain, Egypt, Libya and Palestine (Historia Augusta Hadr. 5.2)
He strips Lusius Quietus of his command and dismisses him, and appoints Marcius Turbo to put down the revolt in Mauretania (Historia Augusta Hadr. 5.8)

Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.