ante diem vii kalendas novembres

- ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
- 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
- 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
- ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
- 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled
- 1917 — birth of Machteld Mellink (archaeologist and staunch advocate against the trade of looted antiquities)
- 1918 — birth of Dietrich von Bothmer (curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan)
- 2008 — death of Fr Michele Piccirillo (co founder of the mosaic museum in Jordan)