15 BC
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| Gregorian calendar | 15 BC XIV BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 739 |
| Ancient Greek era | 191st Olympiad, year 2 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4736 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| 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 | 3086–3087 |
| Holocene calendar | 9986 |
| Iranian calendar | 636 BP – 635 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 656 BH – 655 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 15 BC XIV BC |
| Korean calendar | 2319 |
| Minguo calendar | 1926 before ROC 民前1926年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1482 |
| Seleucid era | 297/298 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 528–529 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 112 or −269 or −1041 — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 113 or −268 or −1040 |
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Year 15 BC was either a common year starting on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Piso.
Events
- Roman province of Raetia is started (in modern-day Switzerland). Chur is the capital.
- Drusus builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy
- Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the Germanic peoples
Births
- for more information, see Category:15 BC births.
- Germanicus, Roman general (d. AD 19)
- Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (d. AD 50)