17 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	40s BC  30s BC  20s BC  – 10s BC –  0s BC  0s  10s
Years:	20 BC 19 BC 18 BC – 17 BC – 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC

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Year 17 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Furnius and Silanus.

Events

• Rome celebrates the Secular Games

Births

• Arminius, German war chief (d. AD 21)
• Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major (d. AD 40)
• Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (d. AD 2)

17 BC Media

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  The Aeneid is published in 19 BC, after the death of Virgil earlier that year.

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  Drusus' battles with Germanic tribes (12–9 BC)

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  Depiction of Virgil (70 BC–19 BC)

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  Coin of King Asander (110 BC–17 BC)