AD 17

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• May 26 - Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other Germanic tribes west of the Elbe.
• Emperor Tiberius sends Germanicus to the east, in order to lead a military campaign against Parthia.
• Cappadocia becomes a Roman province.
• Lucius Aelius Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.

  Europe

• A civil war begins in Germania.
• Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is defeated by Arminius and his Germanic tribes.

  Africa

• Tacfarinas, Numidian deserter from the Roman army, begins a guerrilla war against the Romans. He leads his own Musulamii tribe and a coalition of Berbers, attacking the Limes Tripolitanus a fortified zone of the Roman Empire in Africa.

  Judea

• Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, builds the city Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in honor of Tiberius.

  Asia Minor

• An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis and damages several other cities.

  By topic

Arts and sciences

• Publication of the Ab Urbe condita in 142 volumes by Livy.

  Births

Deaths

• Antiochus III, king of Commagene
• Archelaus, king of Cappadocia
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman Latin writer
• Livy, Roman historian
• Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Roman senator
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet