ante diem iv nonas sextilias

• 338 B.C. — Death of Archidamus III (King of Sparta)
• 216 B.C. — Hannibal inflicts a massive defeat on Roman forces at Cannae (possible date)
• 86 B.C. — Sulla defeats Mithridates at Chaeronea (possible date)
• 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Afranius and Petreius (legates of Pompey) at Ilerda
• 47 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Pharnaces II at Zela (and would later proclaim his victory with the famous “Veni, vidi, vici” )
• 9 A.D. — death of Quintilius Varus (not sure about this one)

ante diem vii kalendas sextilias

• ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 7)
• 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 9)
• 110 A.D. — martyrdom of Hyacinthus
• 1893 — birth of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)

ante diem viii kalendas sextilias

• Furrinalia — a festival in honour of an obscure Roman deity named Furrina, who appears to have been assiociated with a grove and/or spring
• ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 6)
• 44 A.D. — marytrdom of James the Greater
• 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 8)
• 306 A.D. — death of the emperor Constantius I; dies imperii of Constantine I
• 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea closes

ante diem xii kalendas sextilias

• Lucaria (day 2) — the followup to a similar festival on the 19th commemorating the Sack of Rome by the Gauls; this day marked Rome’s subsquent victory
• ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving Caesar’s own ludi Veneris Genetricis)
• 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 4)

pridie idus quinctilias

• Mercatus — as often, a lengthy festival was followed by a few market days
• 218 A.D. — the emperor Elagabalus is coopted into all the priestly colleges