• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 4)– games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 1729 — birth of James Boswell (biographer of Johnson)

ante diem vi 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

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 2) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 43 B.C. — Marcus Junius Brutus commits suicide in the wake of the defeat at Philippi (by one reckoning)
• 113 A.D. — the emperor Trajan departs from Rome for his war against the Parthians
• 251 A.D. — the future emperor Valerian is elected by the senate to the recently-revived office of censor
• 1469 — birth of Erasmus

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
• 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
• ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
• 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled (perhaps portrayed here?)

• 322 B.C. — death of Demosthenes (by one reckoning)
• 237 A.D. — martyrdom of Daria and Chrysanthus
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Minias
• 286 A.D. — martyrdom of twin saints Crispin and Crispian