This Day in Ancient History: nonas sextilis

nonas sextilis

  • rites in honour of Salus on the Quirinal Hill
  • 465 B.C. — Xerxes I murdered by Artabanus (source?)
  • 244 B.C. — Brundisium becomes a Latin colony
  • ca. 79 B.C. — birth of Tullia, daughter of Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 1540 — birth of Joseph Justus Scaliger