Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History:

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ante diem xii kalendas septembres

  • Consualia — festival involving games/chariot races in honour of Consus and other assorted divinities; one of the races apparently featured chariots pulled by mules
  • 753 B.C.(?) – rape of the Sabine women (which traditionally happened during the celebration of the above)

This Day in Ancient History:

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 ante diem xiii kalendas septembres
  • 2 A.D. — death of Augustus’ grandson/adoptive son Lucius  Caesar in Massalia
  • 14 A.D. — execution/death of Agrippa Postumus (still not sure of the source for that)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiv kalendas septembres

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ante diem xiv kalendas septembres

  • Vinalia — the second major wine festival of this name celebrated by the Romans
  • 43 B.C. — the future emperor Octavian enters his first consulship; Octavian’s adoption by Julius Caesar formally recognized
  • 14 A.D. — Augustus dies at Nola
  • 232 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Probus
  • 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Thecla at Caesarea
  • c. 306 A.D. — martyrdom of Agapius at Caesarea

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas septembres

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ante diem xv kalendas septembres

  • 29 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Divus Julius (and associated rites thereafter)
  • 2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Florus and Laurus in Illyria
  • 328 A.D. — death of Helena, mother of Constantine

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas Augustas

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 ante diem ix kalendas Augustas

  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)
  •  64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)
  •  69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)
  •  133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar – fell to the Romans (?)
  •  1895 — Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)
  •  1978 — death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)