16

This page is about the year 16 AD. For the actual number, see sixteen.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	13 14 15 – 16 – 17 18 19

16 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	16 XVI
Ab urbe condita	769
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4766
Bahá'í calendar	-1828–-1827
Bengali calendar	-577
Berber calendar	966
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	560
Burmese calendar	-622
Byzantine calendar	5524–5525
Chinese calendar	乙亥年月初三日 (2652/2712--3) — to — 丙子年月十四日 (2653/2713--14)
Coptic calendar	-268–-267
Ethiopian calendar	8–9
Hebrew calendar	3776–3777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	72–73
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3117–3118
Holocene calendar	10016
Iranian calendar	606 BP – 605 BP
Islamic calendar	625 BH – 624 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2349
Minguo calendar	1896 before ROC 民前1896年
Thai solar calendar	559

16 is a year in the 1st century.

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

• A Roman army of 90,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius and capturing his wife Thusnelda, and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions.
• Noricans having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, are defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

• Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

Births

• September 16 – Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38).
• September 16 – Samual Yare, druid of Brittany, assistant to the Roman Emperor 100-126.
• Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress.

Deaths

• Possibly Scribonia, Second wife of Caesar Augustus and mother of Julia the Elder