TDIAH

ante diem vi kalendas decembres 311 — Martyrdom of Peter of Alexandria 1689 — death of Marquard Gude (Classical archaeologist … more of an epigraphist) 1719 — death of John Hudson (Classicist) 1905 — birth of Robert Hamilton (archaeologist … mostly Near Eastern, among other things) 1922 — Howard Carter sees “wonderful things”

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ante diem vii kalendas decembres 2348 B.C. — the Great Flood begins (according to someone’s reckoning!) 571 B.C. — Servius Tullius celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Mercurius 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Moses of Rome 1901 — birth of Jean Humbert (Hellenist) 1908 — death of…

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ante diem viii kalendas decembres 29/30 A.D. — partial solar eclipse in the eastern Mediterranean which is sometimes associated with the crucifixion 62 A.D. — death of the satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus (source?) 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Felicissimus and Firmina 1785 — birth of August Boeckh (one of those old time German philologists who live…

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ante diem ix kalendas decembres 534 B.C. — Thespis wins ‘best actor’ at the first City Dionysia (? I’m inferring from strange claims in Wikipedia here … it’s a slow TDIAH day) ca. 101 — martyrdom (?) of Clement I 1852 — birth of Charles Graux (French Classicist … see Melanges Graux for a biography)…

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c. 70 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and Apphia c. 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Cecilia 1817  — according to Wikipedia, Frédéric Cailliaud discovered the Roman emerald mines at Sikait on this date (but I can’t track down their sources) 1891 — birth of Victor Ehrenberg (Solon to Socrates, among others) 1909 — birth of Allan…

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