16

AD 16 in other calendars
Gregorian calendarAD 16
XVI
Ab urbe condita769
Assyrian calendar4766
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−577
Berber calendar966
Buddhist calendar560
Burmese calendar−622
Byzantine calendar5524–5525
Chinese calendar乙亥(Wood Pig)
2712 or 2652
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
2713 or 2653
Coptic calendar−268 – −267
Discordian calendar1182
Ethiopian calendar8–9
Hebrew calendar3776–3777
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat72–73
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3116–3117
Holocene calendar10016
Iranian calendar606 BP – 605 BP
Islamic calendar625 BH – 624 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarAD 16
XVI
Korean calendar2349
Minguo calendar1896 before ROC
民前1896年
Nanakshahi calendar−1452
Seleucid era327/328 AG
Thai solar calendar558–559
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
142 or −239 or −1011
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
143 or −238 or −1010

16 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo

Events

  • A Roman army of 90,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a victory at Idistaviso. They defeat the German war chief Arminius and capturing his wife Thusnelda.
  • Noricans are defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.
  • Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

Births

Deaths

  • Possibly Scribonia, Second wife of Caesar Augustus and mother of Julia the Elder