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”

pridie nonas martias

• Festival of Mars (day 6)

• 12 B.C. — Augustus becomes pontifex maximus

• ca. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Conon in Pamphylia

ante diem iv kalendas martias

• Festival of Mars (day 4)

• 51 A.D. — the future emperor Nero is given the title princeps iuventutis

• ca 254 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaius

ante diem v nonas martias

Festival of Mars (day 3)

262 A.D. — martyrdom of Marinus and Asterius at Caesarea

ante diem vi nonas martias

• Festival of Mars (Day 2)

• c. 55 A.D. (?) — birth of Decimus Junius Juvenalis … a.k.a. Juvenal

• 258 A.D. — Martyrdom of Jovinus and Basileus at Rome