17 CE

Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other Germanic tribes west of the Elbe. An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis and damages several other cities. Tacfarinas, Numidian deserter from the Roman army, begins a guerrilla war against the Romans. He leads his own Musulamii tribe and a coalition of Berbers, attacking the Limes Tripolitanus, a fortified zone (limes) of the Roman Empire in Africa.

In the 10s, the 1st century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other Germanic tribes west of the Elbe.source
  • Cappadocia (Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.source
  • Lucius Aelius Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.source

Conflict & Security

  • Tacfarinas, Numidian deserter from the Roman army, begins a guerrilla war against the Romans. He leads his own Musulamii tribe and a coalition of Berbers, attacking the Limes Tripolitanus, a fortified zone (limes) of the Roman Empire in Africa.source
  • Emperor Tiberius sends Germanicus to the east, in order to lead a military campaign against Parthia.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, builds the city Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in honor of Tiberius.source

Climate & Environment

  • An earthquake in Anatolia destroys the city of Sardis and damages several other cities.source

Deaths

  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Roman Latin writersource
  • Antiochus III, King of Commagenesource
  • Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Roman senatorsource