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
Assyrian calendar	4736
Bahá'í calendar	-1858–-1857
Bengali calendar	-607
Berber calendar	936
English Regnal year	N/A
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
- 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
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2319
Minguo calendar	1926 before ROC 民前1926年
Thai solar calendar	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

• Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum, and becomes the capital of Rhaetia Prima.
• Chur (Switzerland) becomes the capital of the Roman province Rhaetia.
• 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.
• Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes.
• Roman triremes on Lake Constance destroy fleet of the Vindelici during Rhaetia campaign.

Births

• Germanicus, Roman general (d. AD 19)
• Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (d. AD 50)

Deaths

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