This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xvi kalendas maias
- ludi Cereri (day 5)
- 43 B.C. — Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) is hailed as Imperator for the first time
- 69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have occured on April 17)
- 304 A.D. — martyrs of Saragossa
- 1928 — death of Jane Ellen Harrison (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion among others)
