Year 17 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday (link will display the full calendar) 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.
Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Gregorian calendar | 17 BC XVII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 737 |
Ancient Greek era | 190th Olympiad, year 4 |
Assyrian calendar | 4734 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −609 |
Berber calendar | 934 |
Buddhist calendar | 528 |
Burmese calendar | −654 |
Byzantine calendar | 5492–5493 |
Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2681 or 2474 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2682 or 2475 |
Coptic calendar | −300 – −299 |
Discordian calendar | 1150 |
Ethiopian calendar | −24 – −23 |
Hebrew calendar | 3744–3745 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 40–41 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3084–3085 |
Holocene calendar | 9984 |
Iranian calendar | 638 BP – 637 BP |
Islamic calendar | 658 BH – 657 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 17 BC XVII BC |
Korean calendar | 2317 |
Minguo calendar | 1928 before ROC 民前1928年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1484 |
Seleucid era | 295/296 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 526–527 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 110 or −271 or −1043 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 111 or −270 or −1042 |
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Events
editBy place
editRoman Empire
edit- Emperor Augustus adopts Gaius and Lucius Caesar.
- Emperor Augustus celebrates the secular games in Rome, for which Horace's hymn the "Carmen Saeculare" is commissioned.
Births
edit- 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)
- Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (d. AD 2)
Deaths
edit- Asander, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom (b. 110 BC)