AD 15

AD 15 (XV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 768 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 15 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.

AD 15 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 15 XV
Ab urbe condita	768
Assyrian calendar	4765
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−579 – −578
Berber calendar	965
Buddhist calendar	559
Burmese calendar	−623
Byzantine calendar	5523–5524
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2712 or 2505     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2713 or 2506
Coptic calendar	−269 – −268
Discordian calendar	1181
Ethiopian calendar	7–8
Hebrew calendar	3775–3776
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	71–72
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3115–3116
Holocene calendar	10015
Iranian calendar	607 BP – 606 BP
Islamic calendar	626 BH – 625 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 15 XV
Korean calendar	2348
Minguo calendar	1897 before ROC 民前1897年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1453
Seleucid era	326/327 AG
Thai solar calendar	557–558
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 141 or −240 or −1012     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 142 or −239 or −1011

Bust of Germanicus (15 BC – AD 19)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Early (approx.) – Emona (on the site of modern-day Ljubljana) is founded by Legio XV Apollinaris.^[1]
• May – As part of his campaign against the Germanic peoples, Germanicus captures Thusnelda, wife of Arminius.^[2]
• Summer – Germanicus launches a two-pronged attack from Vetera and Moguntiacum. On his return journey, he recaptures the aquila of Legio XIX and visits the battlefield of the Teutoburg Forest. Germanicus arranges the burial for the remains of Varus' army.^[3]
• Varna (Odessus), on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, is annexed to the Roman province of Moesia.
• In Rome, the election of magistrates passes from the people to the Emperor and the Senate.
• The river Tiber floods parts of Rome.^[4]

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Nicolaus of Damascus writes a biography of the Emperor Augustus (Bios Kaisaros).

Births

• September 24 – Vitellius, Roman emperor (d. AD 69)
• November 6 – Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress (d. AD 59)
• Apollonius of Tyana, Greek philosopher (d. c. AD 97)
• Ennia Thrasylla, Roman noblewoman (d. AD 38)
• Lollia Paulina, Roman empress (d. AD 49)
• Lucius Verginius Rufus, Roman consul (d. AD 97)

Deaths

• Lucius Seius Strabo, Roman praetorian prefect (b. 46 BC)