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ante diem xvi kalendas apriles

• Festival of Mars continues (day 17)

• Liberalia — a festival of general merriment and wine drinking in honour of Liber Pater (another name for Bacchus)

• Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities

• 45 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pompey’s sons and Labienus at Munda

• 136 A.D. — the future emperor Marcus Aurelius dons the toga virilis

• 180 A.D. — death of Marcus Aurelius at Bononia

• 461 A.D. — death of Saint Patrick (traditional)