ante diem xiii kalendas martias
Parentalia (Day 5) — the period for appeasing the dead continued
Quirinalia — festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival.
304 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice
1776 — Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
rogueclassicism 
Compliments on your recent migration to WordPress, but I must say, it’s looking a little stark over here. I really do miss the Roman red of the previous format. Will it be coming back in any form ?
WordPress just came out with a new theme which seems to fit my needs better than this one; I’ll probably be fiddling on the weekend …