16 BC

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. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio.

16 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	16 BC XV BC
Ab urbe condita	738
Ancient Greek era	191st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4735
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−608
Berber calendar	935
Buddhist calendar	529
Burmese calendar	−653
Byzantine calendar	5493–5494
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2681 or 2621     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2682 or 2622
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 XV 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

Events

• Noricum is added the Roman Empire
• Caesar Augustus makes Trier the capital of German provinces

Deaths

• Cornelia Scipio, daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito and Scribonia (b. c. 46 BC)
• Empress Wang