17

This page is about the year 17 AD. For the actual number, see seventeen.

17 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Rufus

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

AD 17 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 17 XVII
Ab urbe condita	770
Assyrian calendar	4767
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−576
Berber calendar	967
Buddhist calendar	561
Burmese calendar	−621
Byzantine calendar	5525–5526
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2713 or 2653     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2714 or 2654
Coptic calendar	−267 – −266
Discordian calendar	1183
Ethiopian calendar	9–10
Hebrew calendar	3777–3778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	73–74
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3117–3118
Holocene calendar	10017
Iranian calendar	605 BP – 604 BP
Islamic calendar	624 BH – 623 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 17 XVII
Korean calendar	2350
Minguo calendar	1895 before ROC 民前1895年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1451
Seleucid era	328/329 AG
Thai solar calendar	559–560
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 143 or −238 or −1010     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 144 or −237 or −1009

Events

Roman Empire

• Germanicus leads military campaigns in the East.
• Cappadocia (in Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.
• Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.
• The book Ab Urbe condita ("History of Rome Since its Foundation") is published in 142 volumes. Livy was the author.

Europe

• Beginning of a civil war in Germania.

Asia Minor

• An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis.

Deaths

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