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 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

15 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	15 BC
Ab urbe condita	739
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1858 – -1857
Bengali calendar	-607
Berber calendar	936
Buddhist calendar	530
Burmese calendar	-652
Byzantine calendar	5494 – 5495
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (2622/2682) — to — 丙午年 (2623/2683)
Coptic calendar	-298 – -297
Ethiopian calendar	-22 – -21
Hebrew calendar	3746 – 3747
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	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
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2319
Thai solar calendar	529

Year 15 BC was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Marcus Livius Drusus Libo and Lucius Calpurnius Piso are Roman Consuls.
• Nero Claudius Drusus decides to improve the passage through the Alps for military control to Noricum and Rhaetia (modern Austria). He builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy.
• Roman triremes on Lake Constance destroy fleet of the Vindelici during Rhaetia campaign.
• Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes.
• Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum, and becomes the capital of Rhaetia Prima.
• Chur (Switserland) becomes the capital of the Roman province Rhaetia.

Births

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

Deaths

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

References