17
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Year 17 (XVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
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By place
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Roman Empire
- Germanicus leads military campaigns in the East.
- Cappadocia (in Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.
- Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.
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Europe
- Beginning of a civil war in Germania.
- Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is defeated by Arminius and his Germanic tribes.
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Africa
- Tacfarinas begins a guerrilla warfare campaign against the Romans.
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Palestine
- Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, builds on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, the city Tiberias in honor of emperor Tiberius.
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Asia Minor
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Arts and sciences
- Publication of the Ab Urbe condita ("History of Rome Since its Foundation") in 142 volumes by Livy.
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Births
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Deaths
- Ovid, Roman poet (or 18)
- Livy, Roman historian
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman author
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