15

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	12 13 14 – 15 – 16 17 18

15 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

15 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	15 XV
Ab urbe condita	768
Assyrian calendar	4765
Bengali calendar	−578
Berber calendar	965
Buddhist calendar	559
Burmese calendar	−623
Byzantine calendar	5523–5524
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2711 or 2651     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2712 or 2652
Coptic calendar	−269 – −268
Discordian calendar	1181
Ethiopian calendar	7–8
Hebrew calendar	3775–3776
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	71–72
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3116–3117
Holocene calendar	10015
Iranian calendar	607 BP – 606 BP
Islamic calendar	626 BH – 625 BH
Julian calendar	15 XV
Korean calendar	2348
Minguo calendar	1897 before ROC 民前1897年
Seleucid era	326/327 AG
Thai solar calendar	557–558

Bust of Germanicus (15 BC – AD 19)

Year 15 (XV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 768 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 15 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Early (approx.) – Emona (on the site of modern-day Ljubljana) is founded by Legio XV Apollinaris.^[1]
• May – As part of his campaign against the Germanic peoples, Germanicus captures Thusnelda, wife of Arminius.^[2]
• Summer – Germanicus launches a two-pronged attack from Vetera and Moguntiacum. On his return journey, he recaptures the aquila of Legio XIX and visits the battlefield of the Teutoburg Forest. Germanicus arranges the burial for the remains of Varus' army.^[3]
• Varna (Odessus), on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, is annexed to the Roman province of Moesia.
• In Rome, the selection of civil servants passes from the people to the Emperor and the Senate.
• The river Tiber floods parts of Rome.^[4]
• Valerius Gratus is appointed Prefect of the Roman province of Judea.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Nicolaus of Damascus writes a biography of the Emperor Augustus (Bios Kaisaros).

Births

• September 24 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69 AD)
• November 6 – Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress (or possibly 16) (d. 59)
• Apollonius of Tyana, Greek philosopher (d. c. 100) (approximate date)

Deaths

• Lucius Seius Strabo, Praetorian prefect (b. 46 BC)

References

1. According to Balduin Saria in 1938; not supported by later archaeological findings. Šašel Kos, Marjeta (September 2012). "2000 let Emone? Kaj bomo praznovali?" [2000 Years of Emona? What Will We Celebrate?] (PDF). Ljubljana: glasilo Mestne občine Ljubljana [Ljubljana: The Bulletin of the City Municipality of Ljubljana] (in Slovenian) XVII (7): 28–29. ISSN 1318-797X. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
2. Tacitus, The Annals 1.57.
3. Tacitus, The Annals 1.62
4. Tacitus, The Annals 1.76.