ante diem vii idus martias

• Festival of Mars (day 9) which included another procession of the Salian priests around the city

• 320 A.D. — martyrdom of Candidus and the other “Forty Armenian Martyrs”

ante diem viii idus martias

• Festival of Mars continues (day eight)
• 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and companions
• 1757 – death of Thomas Blackwell (Classical scholar)

ante diem iii nonas martias

• Festival of Mars (day 5)
• 399 B.C. — death of Socrates (according to one reckoning)
• 13 B.C. — death of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (the triumvir) (according to one reckoning)
• 51 A.D. — the future emperor Nero is coopted into all the priestly colleges

ante diem v nonas martias

• Festival of Mars (day 3)
• 262 A.D. — martyrdom of Marinus and Asterius at Caesarea