17

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

 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

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