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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas quinctilias

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ante diem ix kalendas quinctilias

  • 47 B.C. — birth of Caesarion, a.k.a Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor (son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra)
  • 79 A.D. — death of the emperor Vespasian
  • 1986 — death of Moses Finley

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas quinctilis

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ante diem x kalendas quinctilis

  • 217 B.C. — Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III at the battle of Raphia (by one reckoning)
  • 168 B.C. — Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeats Perseus at the Battle of Pydna, bringing the Third Macedonian War to an end
  • 109 A.D. — the Baths of Trajan open

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas quinctilias

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ante diem xi kalendas quinctilias

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas quinctilias

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ante diem xiii kalendas quinctilias

  • 240 B.C. — Eratosthenes calculates the circumference of the earth (I have no idea what the source for this is)
  • rites at the Temple of Minerva on the Aventine
  • ca. 165 (?) — martyrdom of Protase
  • 325 A.D. — Hosius announces the Nicene Creed during the First Council of Nicaea