17

Year 17 (XVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Germanicus leads military campaigns in the East.
Cappadocia (in Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.
Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.

Europe

Beginning of a civil war in Germania.

Asia Minor

An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis.

By topic

Arts and sciences

Publication of the Ab Urbe condita ("History of Rome Since its Foundation") in 142 volumes by Livy.

Deaths

Ovid, Roman poet (or 18)
Livy, Roman historian
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman author

Translation

The word "17" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Azeri, Belarusian, Belarusian (Taraškievica), Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Swahili, Latin, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Lombard, Hungarian, Macedonian, Egyptian Arabic, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Uzbek, Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Tahitian, Romanian, Sakha, Albanian, Sicilian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, Waray-Waray, Yoruba.

Translation(s) in other languages: Alemannic: 10er#17, Amharic: 17 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:17, Bengali: ১৭, Bihari: १७, Persian: ۱۷ (میلادی), Gan: 17年, Korean: 17년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১৭, Haitian: 17 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 17 m., Marathi: इ.स. १७, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १७, Japanese: 17年, Oriya: ୧୭, Pali: १७, Ripuarian: Joohr 17, Russian: 17 год, Sanskrit: १७, Thai: พ.ศ. 560, Urdu: 17ء, Cantonese: 17年, Chinese: 17年.