AD 17

Ruins of the Limes Tripolitanus (Africa)

AD 17 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 17 XVII
Ab urbe condita	770
Assyrian calendar	4767
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−577 – −576
Berber calendar	967
Buddhist calendar	561
Burmese calendar	−621
Byzantine calendar	5525–5526
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire  Rat) 2714 or 2507     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire  Ox) 2715 or 2508
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	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 143 or −238 or −1010     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 144 or −237 or −1009

AD 17 ( XVII ) was a common year starting on Friday 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.

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.

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]

Deaths

• Antiochus III, King of Commagene
• Archelaus, king of Cappadocia ^[4]
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman Latin writer
• Livy, Roman historian ^[5]
• Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Roman senator
• Ovid, Roman poet ^[6] (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
5. Oglivie, Robert Maxwell. "Livy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
6. Kenney, Edward John. "Ovid". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved February 22, 2024.