This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas novembres

ante diem vi kalendas novembres

ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 2) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
43 B.C. — Marcus Junius Brutus commits suicide in the wake of the defeat at Philippi (by one reckoning)
113 A.D. — the emperor Trajan departs from Rome for his war against the Parthians
251 A.D. — the future emperor Valerian is elected by the senate to the recently-revived office of censor
1469 — birth of Erasmus

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