This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas apriles

ante diem iii kalendas apriles

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas apriles

ante diem v kalendas apriles

37 A.D. — arrival of Gaius (Caligula) in Rome
193 A.D. — murder of the emperor Pertinax; recognition of Didius Julianus as Augustus
364 A.D. — elevation of Valens to the rank of Augustus

… in the early Church, this was one of the days claimed as the day of Jesus’ birth …

ante diem vi kalendas apriles

538 B.C. — Accession of Cyrus the Great to the Persian throne (according to one reckoning)*

196 B.C.– Ptolemy V Epiphanes becomes pharaoh of Egypt (accordingto one reckoning)*

47 B.C. — Gaius Julius Caesar is victorious in Alexandria

47 B.C. — Ptolemy XIII drowns while trying to cross the Nile (related to the foregoing event?)

ante diem vii kalendas apriles

1546 — death of Thomas Elyot (compiler of the first major (?) Latin-English dictionary)
1859 — birth of A.E. Housman

ante diem xii kalendas apriles

Festival of Mars continues (day 21)
Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts
1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)