15

Year 15 (XV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Emona (currently Ljubljana) is founded by Legio XV Apollinaris.
Germanicus fights a drawn battle with Arminius in the Teutoburg Forest.
Legio XXI Rapax is stationed in Regensburg.
In Rome, the selection of civil servants passes from the people to the Emperor and the Senate.
Valerius Gratus is appointed Prefect of Iudaea.

By topic

Arts and sciences

Biography of Augustus by Nicholas of Damascus is published.

Births

September 24—Vitellius, Roman Emperor.
November 6—Agrippina the younger, Roman empress (or possibly 16) (died 59).

Deaths

Lucius Seius Strabo, Praetorian prefect. His son, Sejanus, succeeds him.

Translation

The word "15" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Azeri, Belarusian, Belarusian (Taraškievica), Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Swahili, Latin, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Lombard, Hungarian, Macedonian, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Uzbek, Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Tahitian, Romanian, Sakha, Albanian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, Waray-Waray, Yoruba.

Translation(s) in other languages: Alemannic: 10er#15, Amharic: 15 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:15, Bengali: ১৫, Bihari: १५, Persian: ۱۵ (میلادی), Gan: 15年, Korean: 15년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১৫, Haitian: 15 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 15 m., Marathi: इ.स. १५, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १५, Japanese: 15年, Oriya: ୧୫, Pali: १५, Ripuarian: Joohr 15, Russian: 15 год, Sanskrit: १५, Thai: พ.ศ. 558, Urdu: 15ء, Cantonese: 15年, Chinese: 15年.