ante diem viii idus novembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 3) — the major festival in honour of Jupiter continues
• 63 B.C. — Lucius Sergius Catilina and his co-conspirators meet, with nefarious plans for the morrow
• 15 (or 16) A.D. — birth of Julia Agrippina (“the younger”), daughter of Germanicus, sister to the emperor Gaius (Caligula), mother of the emperor Nero, wife of the emperor Claudius … a very powerful woman.
• 1927 — death of David George Hogarth (Classical archaeologist and keeper of the Ashmolean)

nonae novembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 2) — the major festival in honour of Jupiter continues
• 1817 — death of Carl Haller von Hallerstein(excavator, with others. of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae)
• 1921 — birth of John Crook (Roman social/legal historian)

pridie nonas novembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 1) — a major festival in honour of Jupiter
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Agricola
• 1901 — birth of Spyridon Marinatos

ante diem iv nonas novembres

• 1656 B.C. — traditional date for the start of the Great Flood (according to one calculation)
• 285 B.C. — Ptolemy II Philadelphus ascends the throne of Egypt as co-ruler with Ptolemy I(by one reckoning)
• 188 A.D. — martyrdom of Eustachius/Placidus (in a bronze bull!)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus of Trieste
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Victorinus of Pettau
• 315 A.D. — martyrdom of Carterius and his companions (soldiers under Licinius)

ante diem v kalendas novembres

• 97 A.D. – The emperor Nerva adopts the future emperor Trajan
• 312 A.D – Battle of the Milvian Bridge; Constantine I has a vision and defeats Maxentius to become sole emperor
• 1917 — birth of Honor Frost (underwater archaeology pioneer)