This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii idus apriles

  • 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning)
  • 52 B.C. — trial of Milo — with Cicero on his side — for the murder of Clodius (by one reckoning)
  • 92 A.D. — martyrdom of Antipas
  • 145 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Septimius Severus

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