15 BC

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.

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 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	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 112 or −269 or −1041     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 113 or −268 or −1040

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)

Deaths

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