General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Entertainment: Aenid published (17 BC)
- History: Livy's "Histories of Rome" finished (17 BC)
- Deaths: Roman poet Virgil (19 or 17 BC)
Americas
- General: Famine replaces war among Nephites (18 BC)
End of famine among Nephites (16 BC)
Asia
- India: Satavahana Dynasty present (10 BC)
Europe
- General: Roman empire extends to upper Danube (15 BC)
- Eastern Europe: Revolt in Pannonia (North Yugoslavia) quelled after three years by Augustus' step-son Tiberius Claudius Nero (12 BC)
- Ireland: Famine (10 BC)