16

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Year '16' was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Births

Deaths

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