ante diem xi kalendas decembres

• 164 B.C. — Judas Maccabeus restores the Temple in Jerusalem, including removal of the Hellenistic statuary (maybe)
• 53 B.C. – Death of Marcus Licinius Crassus in Mesopotamia shortly after his defeat at Carrhae (maybe)
• 1912 — birth of Pierre Grimal

  

  (Classicist)

• 1914 — birth of Michael Grant (yes, the incredibly prolific one)
• 1931 — birth of Lewis Binford ((not Classical, but important) archaeologist)

ante diem xiii kalendas decembres

• Mercatus — time to restock the pantry after the lengthy festival in honour of Jupiter
• 1665 — death of Nicholas Poussin (painter of many Classical subjects)
• 1797 — birth of Charles Anthon (prolifically-published American Classicist)
• 1903 — birth of Sterling Dow (who perfected the squeeze, among other important contributions to epigraphy and archaeology)

ante diem iii idus novembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 8) — the Jupiterfest continues
• 109 A.D. — the emperor Trajan stages a naumachia
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Athenodorus

ante diem v idus novembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 6) — the Jupiterfest continues
• 2348 B.C. — the Great Flood began (according to Polyhistor)
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Orestes in Cappadocia