AD 17

AD 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 AD 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.

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

AD 17 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 17 XVII
Ab urbe condita	770
Assyrian calendar	4767
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
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	3117–3118
Holocene calendar	10017
Iranian calendar	605 BP – 604 BP
Islamic calendar	624 BH – 623 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 17 XVII
Korean calendar	2350
Minguo calendar	1895 before ROC 民前1895年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1451
Seleucid era	328/329 AG
Thai solar calendar	559–560
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 143 or −238 or −1010     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 144 or −237 or −1009

Ruins of the Limes Tripolitanus (Africa)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a 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

• A civil war begins 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.

Judea

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

Births

Deaths

• Antiochus III, king of Commagene
• Archelaus, king of Cappadocia[4]
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman Latin writer
• Livy, Roman historian (approximate date)
• Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Roman senator
• Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet (or AD 18)

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