15 BC facts for kids

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 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 of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Piso.

Events

• Roman province of Raetia is started (in modern-day Switzerland). Chur is the capital.
• Drusus builds the Via Claudia Augusta through Italy
• Vienna becomes a frontier city (Vindobona) guarding the Roman Empire against the Germanic peoples

Births

for more information, see Category:15 BC births.

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

Deaths

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