17

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	14 15 16 – 17 – 18 19 20

17 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

17 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	17 XVII
Ab urbe condita	770
Assyrian calendar	4767
Bengali calendar	−576
Berber calendar	967
Buddhist calendar	561
Burmese calendar	−621
Byzantine calendar	5525–5526
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2713 or 2653     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2714 or 2654
Coptic calendar	−267 – −266
Discordian calendar	1183
Ethiopian calendar	9–10
Hebrew calendar	3777–3778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	73–74
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3118–3119
Holocene calendar	10017
Iranian calendar	605 BP – 604 BP
Islamic calendar	624 BH – 623 BH
Julian calendar	17 XVII
Korean calendar	2350
Minguo calendar	1895 before ROC 民前1895年
Seleucid era	328/329 AG
Thai solar calendar	559–560

Ruins of the Limes Tripolitanus (Africa)

Year 17 (XVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 770 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 17 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

By place

Roman Empire

• May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as conquering hero, he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other Germanic tribes west of the Elbe.^[1]
• Emperor Tiberius sends Germanicus to the east in order to lead a military campaign against Parthia.
• Cappadocia (Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.
• Lucius Aelius Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.

Europe

• Beginning of a civil war in Germania.
• Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is defeated by Arminius and his Germanic tribes.

Africa

• Tacfarinas, Numidian deserter from the Roman army,^[2] begins a guerrilla war against the Romans. He leads his own Musulamii tribe and a coalition of Berbers, attacking the Limes Tripolitanus a fortified zone (Limes) of the Roman Empire in Africa.

Israel

• Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, builds on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, the city Tiberias in honor of Tiberius.

Asia Minor

• An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis and damages several other cities.^[3]

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Publication of the Ab Urbe condita ("History of Rome Since its Foundation") in 142 volumes by Livy.

Deaths

• Ovid, Roman poet (or 18)
• Livy, Roman historian (b. 59 BC)
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman author (b. c. 64 BC)
• Archelaus, King of Cappadocia.^[4]

References

1. Tacitus, The Annals 2.41
2. Tacitus, The Annals 2.52
3. Tacitus, The Annals 2.47
4. Tacitus, The Annals 2.42