17 BC

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Year '17 BC' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ Under the emperor Augustus, Rome celebrated the Secular games, for which Horace's hymn the ''Carmen Saeculare'' was commissioned.

Births

★ Arminius, German war chief who defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

★ Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major

★ Lucius Caesar, son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder

Deaths

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