{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}} {{About|the year|the highway|British Columbia Highway 16}}{{Multiple issues|{{more categories|date=March 2025}}{{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} }} {{dynamic list}} {{Year nav|-16}} {{BC year in topic|16}} [[File:Maison Carree in Nimes (16).jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|West side of the [[Maison Carrée]] in [[Nîmes]]]] __NOTOC__ Year '''16 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Monday]], [[Common year starting on Tuesday|Tuesday]] or [[Common year starting on Wednesday|Wednesday]] or a [[leap year starting on Monday]] or [[Leap year starting on Tuesday|Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]] (the sources differ, see [[Julian calendar#Leap year error|leap year error]] for further information) and a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Proleptic Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio''' (or, less frequently, '''year 738 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 16 BC 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.
== Events == <onlyinclude> === By place ===
==== Roman Empire ==== * The [[Norican]]s having joined with the [[Pannonia]]ns in invading [[Istria#Early history|Histria]], are defeated by [[Publius Silius Nerva]], proconsul of [[Illyricum (Roman province)|Illyricum]]. * [[Braga]], Portugal is founded. * [[Noricum]] is incorporated into the [[Roman Empire]]. * [[Augustus|Caesar Augustus]] reorganizes the German provinces, making [[Trier]] their capital. * [[Clades Lolliana]]: [[Roman consul]] [[Marcus Lollius]] is defeated by a [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] horde. * Construction of the [[Roman temple]] of [[Maison Carrée]] at [[Nîmes]] in [[Gallia Narbonensis]] (approximate date).</onlyinclude> == Deaths == * [[Aemilius Macer]], Roman [[Didacticism|didactic]] poet and writer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Poliziano |first1=Angelo |title=Silvae |date=30 July 2004 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01480-0 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRpLXUTfbR4C |access-date=25 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref> * [[Scribonius (Bosporan usurper)|Scribonius]], Roman client king of the [[Bosporan Kingdom]] * [[Empress Wang (Xuan)|Wang]], Chinese empress of the [[Western Han dynasty]]
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