17 BC

Year 17 BCE 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
Centuries:	2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century
Decades:	30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s
Years:	20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC

17 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	17 BC XVI 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) 2680 or 2620     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2681 or 2621
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 XVI 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

Coin of King Asander (110 BC–17 BC)

Events

Roman Empire

• 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, German 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

• Asander, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom (b. 110 BC)

References