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Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium BC Centuries 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC v t e 16 BC by topic Politics State leaders Political entities Categories Deaths Establishments v t e 16 BC in various calendars Gregorian calendar 16 BC XVI BC Ab urbe condita 738 Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 191st Olympiad (victor)¹ Assyrian calendar 4735 Balinese saka calendar N/A Bengali calendar −609 – −608 Berber calendar 935 Buddhist calendar 529 Burmese calendar −653 Byzantine calendar 5493–5494 Chinese calendar 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2682 or 2475 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2683 or 2476 Coptic calendar −299 – −298 Discordian calendar 1151 Ethiopian calendar −23 – −22 Hebrew calendar 3745–3746 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 41–42 - Shaka Samvat N/A - Kali Yuga 3085–3086 Holocene calendar 9985 Iranian calendar 637 BP – 636 BP Islamic calendar 657 BH – 656 BH Javanese calendar N/A Julian calendar 16 BC XVI BC Korean calendar 2318 Minguo calendar 1927 before ROC 民前1927年 Nanakshahi calendar −1483 Seleucid era 296/297 AG Thai solar calendar 527–528 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 111 or −270 or −1042 — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 112 or −269 or −1041 West side of the [Maison Carrée](/source/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e) in [Nîmes](/source/N%C3%AEmes) Year **16 BC** was either a [common year starting on Monday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Monday), [Tuesday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Tuesday) or [Wednesday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Wednesday) or a [leap year starting on Monday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Monday) or [Tuesday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Tuesday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar) (the sources differ, see [leap year error](/source/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_error) for further information) and a [common year starting on Sunday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Sunday) of the [Proleptic Julian calendar](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 16 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ## Events ### By place #### Roman Empire - The [Noricans](/source/Norican) having joined with the [Pannonians](/source/Pannonia) in invading [Histria](/source/Istria#Early_history), are defeated by [Publius Silius Nerva](/source/Publius_Silius_Nerva), proconsul of [Illyricum](/source/Illyricum_(Roman_province)). - [Braga](/source/Braga), Portugal is founded. - [Noricum](/source/Noricum) is incorporated into the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire). - [Caesar Augustus](/source/Augustus) reorganizes the German provinces, making [Trier](/source/Trier) their capital. - [Clades Lolliana](/source/Clades_Lolliana): [Roman consul](/source/Roman_consul) [Marcus Lollius](/source/Marcus_Lollius) is defeated by a [Germanic](/source/Germanic_peoples) horde. - Construction of the [Roman temple](/source/Roman_temple) of [Maison Carrée](/source/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e) at [Nîmes](/source/N%C3%AEmes) in [Gallia Narbonensis](/source/Gallia_Narbonensis) (approximate date). ## Deaths - [Aemilius Macer](/source/Aemilius_Macer), Roman [didactic](/source/Didacticism) poet and writer[1] - [Scribonius](/source/Scribonius_(Bosporan_usurper)), Roman client king of the [Bosporan Kingdom](/source/Bosporan_Kingdom) - [Wang](/source/Empress_Wang_(Xuan)), Chinese empress of the [Western Han dynasty](/source/Western_Han_dynasty) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Poliziano, Angelo (July 30, 2004). [*Silvae*](https://books.google.com/books?id=DRpLXUTfbR4C). Harvard University Press. p. 191. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-674-01480-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-01480-0). Retrieved June 25, 2025. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [16 BC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_BC) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_BC?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.