- 17 BC
__NOTOC__Year 17 BC was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events
By place
Rome
* Under the emperor
Augustus , Rome celebrated theSecular games , for whichHorace 's hymn the "Carmen Saeculare " was commissioned.Births
*
Arminius , German war chief who defeated the Romans at theBattle of the Teutoburg Forest
* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus andAntonia Major
*Lucius Caesar , son ofMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa andJulia the Elder Deaths
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