15 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Syria: 297/298 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• The Romans conquered the area that later became the province of Raetia will be ( part of the central Alps and foothills of the Alps to the Danube ), Chur is the main settlement of Raetia Prima.
• Founding of the Roman military camp Augusta Vindelicorum, in today's Augsburg district of Oberhausen. In the Allgäu Roman Cambodunum created (now Kempten ).
• Conquest of Celtic settlement; Brigantion, today Bregenz
• Vindobona (now Vienna) is a border town to defend against the invading Germanic tribes from the north.

Economy

• The Roman Mint installed a branch for coinage in Lugdunum.

Born

• May 24: Germanicus, Roman general († 19 AD)

• 15 BC: Drusus the Younger, Roman politician ( † 23 AD )

Died

• Publius Vedius Pollio, friend of Augustus

• 15 BC: Lucius Munatius Plancus, Roman general (c. 87 BC)
• 15 BC: Lucius Varius Rufus, Roman poet (c. 70 BC)
• Around 15 BC by Marcus Junius Silanus, Roman politician ( * before 68 BC)
• 15 BC: Gaius Sosius, Roman politician and military commander