AD 16

AD 16 (XVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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AD 16 in various calendars
Gregorian calendarAD 16
XVI
Ab urbe condita769
Assyrian calendar4766
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−577
Berber calendar966
Buddhist calendar560
Burmese calendar−622
Byzantine calendar5524–5525
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
2712 or 2652
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
2713 or 2653
Coptic calendar−268 – −267
Discordian calendar1182
Ethiopian calendar8–9
Hebrew calendar3776–3777
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat72–73
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3116–3117
Holocene calendar10016
Iranian calendar606 BP – 605 BP
Islamic calendar625 BH – 624 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarAD 16
XVI
Korean calendar2349
Minguo calendar1896 before ROC
民前1896年
Nanakshahi calendar−1452
Seleucid era327/328 AG
Thai solar calendar558–559
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
142 or −239 or −1011
     to 
阳火鼠年
(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]

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References

  1. Tacitus, The Annals 2.21
  2. Tacitus, The Annals 2.24
  3. Tacitus, The Annals 2.4
  4. Tacitus, The Annals 2.40
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