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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	140s BC  130s BC  120s BC  – 110s BC –  100s BC  90s BC  80s BC
Years:	120 BC 119 BC 118 BC – 117 BC – 116 BC 115 BC 114 BC

117 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

117 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	117 BC
Ab urbe condita	637
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1960 – -1959
Bengali calendar	-709
Berber calendar	834
Buddhist calendar	428
Burmese calendar	-754
Byzantine calendar	5392 – 5393
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2520/2580) — to — 甲子年 (2521/2581)
Coptic calendar	-400 – -399
Ethiopian calendar	-124 – -123
Hebrew calendar	3644 – 3645
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-61 – -60
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2985 – 2986
Holocene calendar	9884
Iranian calendar	738 BP – 737 BP
Islamic calendar	761 BH – 760 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2217
Thai solar calendar	427
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[edit] Events

[edit] Births

• Ptolemy XII Auletes (d. 51 BC)

[edit] Deaths

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