17 BC

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)