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 various calendars
Gregorian calendar	15 BC XIV BC
Ab urbe condita	739
Ancient Greek era	191st Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4736
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−607
Berber calendar	936
Buddhist calendar	530
Burmese calendar	−652
Byzantine calendar	5494–5495
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2682 or 2622 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2683 or 2623
Coptic calendar	−298 – −297
Discordian calendar	1152
Ethiopian calendar	−22 – −21
Hebrew calendar	3746–3747
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	42–43
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3086–3087
Holocene calendar	9986
Iranian calendar	636 BP – 635 BP
Islamic calendar	656 BH – 655 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	15 BC XIV BC
Korean calendar	2319
Minguo calendar	1926 before ROC 民前1926年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1482
Seleucid era	297/298 AG
Thai solar calendar	528–529
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 112 or −269 or −1041 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 113 or −268 or −1040

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

for more information, see Category:15 BC births.