This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiv kalendas maias

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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas maias

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ludi Cereri (day 6)
69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have happened on April 16)

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ludi Cereri (day 5)
43 B.C. — Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) is hailed as Imperator for the first time
69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have occured on April 17)
304 A.D. — martyrs of Saragossa
1928 — death of Jane Ellen Harrison (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion among others)

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ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus
421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning)
69 A.D. — the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho
251 A.D. — Martyrdom of Maximus and Olympiades in Persia

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