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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas junias

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ante diem ix kalendas junias

  • Quando Rex Comitavit Fas — the rex sacrorum had to perform some sort of ceremony before the day’s legal business could be conducted (possibly connected to the idea of Regifugium)
  • 15 B.C. — birth of the emperor-to-be-who-never-was Germanicus (brother of the emperor Claudius)
  • 299 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatian and Rogatian

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas junias

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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiv kalendas junias

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ante diem xiv kalendas junias

  • c. 160 A.D. — martyrdom of Pudentiana
  • 175 A.D. — Commodus departs for Germany
  • 307 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyriaca and companions at Nicomedia
  • 1795 — death of James Boswell, author of Life of Dr. Johnson

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas junias

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Detail of a portrait of Elias Ashmole
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ante diem xv kalendas junias

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas junias

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The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment)
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ante diem xvi kalendas junias