TDIAH
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pridie kalendas januarias 192 A.D. — death of Commodus; dies imperii of Pertinax
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ante diem iv kalendas januarias 280 A.D. — martyrdom of Trophimus of Arles
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ante diem v kalendas januarias ? — traditional date for Herod’s massacre of the Holy Innocents 217 A.D. — the emperor Macrinus is coopted into all the priestly colleges
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ante diem vii kalendas januarias 1853 — birth of Wilhelm Dorpfeld (exavator of Troy) 1890 — death of Heinrich Schliemann (ditto)
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ante diem x kalendas januarias Saturnalia continues (day 7) Larentalia — a funerary ritual at the purported tomb of Acca Larentia, who was the wife of the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf. rites in honour of the Tempestates, which seems to be a Latin translation of the Punic divinity…