17 BC

17 BC

__NOTOC__Year 17 BC was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* Under the emperor Augustus, Rome celebrated the Secular games, for which Horace's hymn the "Carmen Saeculare" was commissioned.

Births

* Arminius, German war chief who defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major
* Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder

Deaths

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