16 BC

This article is about the year. For the highway, see British Columbia Highway 16.

Year 16 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Monday or Tuesday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Sunday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio (or, less frequently, year 738 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 16 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.

16 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	16 BC XVI BC
Ab urbe condita	738
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	191st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4735
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−609 – −608
Berber calendar	935
Buddhist calendar	529
Burmese calendar	−653
Byzantine calendar	5493–5494
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2682 or 2475     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2683 or 2476
Coptic calendar	−299 – −298
Discordian calendar	1151
Ethiopian calendar	−23 – −22
Hebrew calendar	3745–3746
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	41–42
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3085–3086
Holocene calendar	9985
Iranian calendar	637 BP – 636 BP
Islamic calendar	657 BH – 656 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	16 BC XVI BC
Korean calendar	2318
Minguo calendar	1927 before ROC 民前1927年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1483
Seleucid era	296/297 AG
Thai solar calendar	527–528
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 111 or −270 or −1042     — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 112 or −269 or −1041

West side of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Noricans having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, are defeated by Publius Silius Nerva, proconsul of Illyricum.
• Braga, Portugal is founded.
• Noricum is incorporated into the Roman Empire.
• Caesar Augustus reorganizes the German provinces, making Trier their capital.
• Clades Lolliana: Roman consul Marcus Lollius is defeated by a Germanic horde.
• Construction of the Roman temple of Maison Carrée at Nîmes in Gallia Narbonensis (approximate date).

Births

Deaths

• Aemilius Macer, Roman didactic poet and writer^[1]
• Scribonius, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom
• Wang, Chinese empress of the Western Han dynasty