117 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC
Years:	120 BC 119 BC 118 BC 117 BC 116 BC 115 BC 114 BC

117 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	117 BC CXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	637
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 207
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 29
Ancient Greek era	165th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4634
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−709
Berber calendar	834
Buddhist calendar	428
Burmese calendar	−754
Byzantine calendar	5392–5393
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2581 or 2374     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2582 or 2375
Coptic calendar	−400 – −399
Discordian calendar	1050
Ethiopian calendar	−124 – −123
Hebrew calendar	3644–3645
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−60 – −59
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2984–2985
Holocene calendar	9884
Iranian calendar	738 BP – 737 BP
Islamic calendar	761 BH – 760 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2217
Minguo calendar	2028 before ROC 民前2028年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1584
Seleucid era	195/196 AG
Thai solar calendar	426–427
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 10 or −371 or −1143     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 11 or −370 or −1142

Year 117 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Diadematus and Augur (or, less frequently, year 637 Ab urbe condita) and the Sixth Year of Yuanshou. The denomination 117 BC 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.

Events

Births

• Ptolemy XII Auletes, king (pharaoh) of Egypt (d. 51 BC)

Deaths

• Huo Qubing, Chinese general of the Han dynasty (b. 140 BC)
• Sima Xiangru, Chinese statesman, poet, and musician (b. 179 BC)

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