17

This article is about the year 17. For the number (and other uses), see 17 (number).

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

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

May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as conquering hero, he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
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.

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

Tacfarinas, Numidian deserter from the Roman army, begins a guerrilla warfare 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.

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

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