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

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[edit] Roman Empire

• A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a great 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.

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[edit] Arts and sciences

• Ovid's "Epistulae ex Ponto" appears.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Deaths

• Possibly Scribonia, Second wife of Caesar Augustus and mother of Julia the Elder
• Clemens (impostor)

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