This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas maias

  • Floralia (day 4)
  • 65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning)
  • 304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius
  • 311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius
  • 1936 — death of A.E. Housman

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