TDIAH
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ante diem xvi kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 17) Liberalia — a festival of general merriment and wine drinking in honour of Liber Pater (another name for Bacchus) Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities 45 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pompey’s sons and Labienus at Munda 136…
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ante diem xvii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 16) 37 A.D. — death of the emperor Tiberius at Misenum 284 A.D. — martyrdom of Hilarius and companions 1900 — Arthur Evans purchases the land around Knossos
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idus martias festival of Mars continues (day 15) festival of Jupiter festival/rites in honour of Anna Perenna (Happy New Year!) 44 B.C. — murder of Gaius Julius Caesar ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Longinus (the soldier who is said to have pierced Jesus’ side with a spear) in Cappadocia
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ante diem iv idus martias Festival of Mars (day 12)
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ante diem vi idus martias Festival of Mars (day 10) … 241 B.C. — Romans are victorious against the Carthaginians in the naval battle of Aegusa, bringing the First Punic War to an end 15 A.D. — Tiberius becomes pontifex maximus ca. 172 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander in Phrygia ca. 258 A.D. — martyrdom…
