ante diem v idus iulias
- ludi Apollinares (day 6) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo
- 1896 — death of Ernst Curtius (historian/archaeologist)
- 1941 — death of Sir Arthur Evans (excavator of Knossos)
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