This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xi kalendas junias
- 415 B.C. — The “mutilation of the herms” occurs, which would briefly delay the launching of the Sicilian Expedition (by one reckoning)
- 334 B.C. — Battle of the Granicus, one of Alexander’s major victories against the Persians (by one reckoning)
- 337 A.D. — death of Constantine I
