ante diem vii kalendas februarias

• Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which also obviously has some rural aspect to it. It appears to have been a two-day festival with an interval of seven days between (corrections on this welcome … my sources seem muddled on this one)

• 66 A.D. — perihelion of what would eventually be called Halley’s comet (possibly mentioned in Josephus; less possibly mentioned in Suetonius)

• 97 A.D. — martyrdom of Timothy

• 1721 — death of Pierre Daniel Huet (editor of the Delphi Classics)

ante diem xii kalendas februarias

• ludi palatini (day 1/4)

• 63 A.D. — birth of Claudia (daughter of Nero and Poppaea)

• 1609 — death of Joseph Justus Scaliger

ante diem xiv kalendas februarias

• Ludi Palatini (day 3)

• c. 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanicus in Smyrna

• 169 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontianus

• c. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Messalina

ante diem xviii kalendas februarias

• carmentalia (day 2) — an annual festival in honour of the nymph Carmenta (a divinity associated with prophecy and childbirth; also the mother of Evander) celebrated primarily by women on the 11th and 15th of January

• 69 A.D. — murder of Galba and his adopted son Piso; dies imperii of Otho

ante diem xix kalendas februarias

• ca. 82 B.C. — birth of Marcus Antonius (a.k.a. Mark Anthony)