TDIAH
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ante diem xiii kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 1) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving Caesar’s own ludi Veneris Genetricis) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 3) 356 B.C. — birth of Alexander the Great (according to one reckoning)…
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ante diem vi idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 5) 70 A.D. — burning of the Second Temple in Jerusalem 138 A.D. — death of the emperor Hadrian; dies imperii of Antoninus Pius ca 150 A.D. — martyrdom of the Seven Holy Brothers (cf below … something’s not right) ca 165 A.D. — martyrdom of Philip
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ante diem vii idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 4) 597 B.C. — date for Thales’ eclipse (or so it was thought in several 19th century (and earlier) sources 118 A.D. — Hadrian finally arrives in Rome as emperor
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ante diem viii idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 3) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a divinity who supposedly presided over victory…
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nonae iuliae ludi Apollinares (day 2)– games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo feriae Ancillarum — a festival in honour of the “maids” who helped save Rome from a Latin attack…
