AD 16

AD 16 (XVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo (or, less frequently, year 769 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 16 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 16 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 16 XVI
Ab urbe condita	769
Assyrian calendar	4766
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−578 – −577
Berber calendar	966
Buddhist calendar	560
Burmese calendar	−622
Byzantine calendar	5524–5525
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2713 or 2506     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2714 or 2507
Coptic calendar	−268 – −267
Discordian calendar	1182
Ethiopian calendar	8–9
Hebrew calendar	3776–3777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	72–73
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3116–3117
Holocene calendar	10016
Iranian calendar	606 BP – 605 BP
Islamic calendar	625 BH – 624 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 16 XVI
Korean calendar	2349
Minguo calendar	1896 before ROC 民前1896年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1452
Seleucid era	327/328 AG
Thai solar calendar	558–559
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་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

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a great victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius, and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions.^[1]
• Germanicus employs the North Sea fleet to avoid dangerous rivers, embarking an army in the Rhine Delta, aboard circa 1,000 ships. He defeats the Germans at the Amisius river estuary and the Weser, but during its return, the Roman fleet is partially destroyed by storms.^[2]
• Vonones, the beleaguered king of Armenia, is summoned to Syria, by Roman governor Creticus Silanus.^[3]

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

Births

• September 16 – Julia Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. AD 38)
• Claudius Drusus, son of Claudius and Plautia Urgulanilla (approximate date)
• Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus, Roman consul (d. AD 64)

Deaths

• September 13 – Marcus Scribonius Libo, Roman senator (forced to commit suicide)
• Clemens, Roman slave and impostor (executed by Tiberius) ^[4]
• Scribonia, second wife of Caesar Augustus (approximate date)