17 BC
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Year 17 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Furnius and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 737 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 17 BC 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
- Emperor Augustus adopts Gaius and Lucius Caesar.[1][2][3]
- Emperor Augustus celebrates the secular games in Rome, for which Horace's hymn the "Carmen Saeculare" is commissioned.
Births
- December 11 – Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major (d. AD 40)
- Arminius, Germanic chieftain who defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (d. AD 21)[4]
- Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (d. AD 2)
Deaths
- Asander, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom (b. 110 BC)
References
- ↑ Goldsworthy, Adrian (2014). Augustus: First Emperor of Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 322–323, 356, 359–360. ISBN 978-0-300-17827-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Southern, Pat (2014). Augustus. Roman Imperial Biographies (second ed.). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 232, 280. ISBN 978-0-415-62838-9. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Syme, Ronald (2002). The Roman Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 416–417. ISBN 978-0-19-280320-7. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "Arminius". Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica. 2014.
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