[I don’t think I’ve posted this feature on New Year’s Day in a decade]

- 291 B.C.– dedication of the temple to Aesculapius on the Tiber Island
- 194 B.C. — dedication of the temple to Vediovis on the Tiber Island
- 153 B.C.– beginning in this year (if not before) the Consuls would enter office on this date
- 7 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius (belatedly) celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Germans
- 42 B.C. — Julius Caesar is posthumously deified by an act of the Senate
- 14 A.D. — the future emperor Galba donned his toga virilis
- 70 A.D. — the deceased emperor Galba is granted restitutio memoriae
- 89 A.D. — L. Antonius Saturninus raises a revolt against Domitian at Moguntiacum
- 112 A.D. — dedication of the Forum of Trajan and the Basilica Ulpia
- 1847 — birth of Rodolfo Lanciani
- 1854 — birth of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough)