ante diem xii kalendas junias

• Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities

• rites in honour of Vediovis

• 429 B.C. — birth of Plato (by one reckoning)

• 70 A.D. — Roman forces break through Jerusalem’s middle wall

• 194 A.D.(?) — Septimius Severus acclaimed as Imperator

• 293 A.D. (?) — elevation of Galerius to the rank of Caesar by Diocletian

• 1920 — birth of John Chadwick (The Decipherment of Linear B)

• 1929 — death of Rodolfo Lanciani (perhaps May 22)

• 1953 — birth of Don Fowler

ante diem xiii kalendas junias

• 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea opens (maybe)

• 1912 — birth of Moses Finley (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, among others)

• 1957 — death of Gilbert Murray ((History of Ancient Greek Literature, among numerous other things)

ante diem xv kalendas junias

• c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Venantius

• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Theodotus

• 1692 — death of Elias Ashmole (founder of the museum that bears his name)

idus maias

• Festival of Jupiter

• rites in honour of Mercury

• rites in honour of Maia

• the Argei are tossed into the Tiber from the Sublician Bridge ….

• 251 — martyrdom of Isidore of Chios

• 392 A.D. — death of the emperor Valentinian II