15 BC

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

15 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	15 BC
Ab urbe condita	739
Ancient Greek era	191st Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4736
Bengali calendar	−607
Berber calendar	936
Buddhist calendar	530
Burmese calendar	−652
Byzantine calendar	5494–5495
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2682 or 2622     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2683 or 2623
Coptic calendar	−298 – −297
Discordian calendar	1152
Ethiopian calendar	−22 – −21
Hebrew calendar	3746–3747
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	42–43
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3087–3088
Holocene calendar	9986
Iranian calendar	636 BP – 635 BP
Islamic calendar	656 BH – 655 BH
Julian calendar	15 BC
Korean calendar	2319
Minguo calendar	1926 before ROC 民前1926年
Seleucid era	297/298 AG
Thai solar calendar	528–529

Year 15 BC was either a common year starting on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday or a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Piso (or, less frequently, year 739 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 15 BC 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

• The Raeti tribes of the Alps are subjugated by Tiberius and Nero Claudius Drusus and the new Roman province of Raetia is established with Chur (in modern-day Switzerland) as its capital. During the campaign, Roman triremes on Lake Constance destroy the fleet of the Vindelici. Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum, and becomes the capital of Raetia Prima; and Legio XXI Rapax is stationed at Regensburg in the new province.
• Drusus decides to improve the passage through the Alps for military control of Noricum and Raetia and builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy.
• Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the Germanic peoples.
• Marcus Livius Drusus Libo and Lucius Calpurnius Piso are Roman Consuls.

Births

• Germanicus, Roman general (d. AD 19)^[1]
• Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (d. AD 50)

Deaths

• Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul 42 BC (b. c. 87 BC)
• Vedius Pollio, equestrian friend of Augustus

References

1. Hurley, Donna (28 November 2004). "Roman Emperors - DIR Germanicus". Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2010.