ante diem iv idus quintilias

• ludi Apollinares (day 7) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo
• 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar
• 67 A.D. — martyrdom of Paulinus of Antioch
• 1536 — death of Erasmus
• 1922 — birth of Michael Ventris, who would decipher Linear B

ante diem v idus iulias

• ludi Apollinares (day 6) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo
• 1896 — death of Ernst Curtius (historian/archaeologist)
• 1941 — death of Sir Arthur Evans (excavator of Knossos)

pridie kalendas quinctilis

Outside of the wedding anniversary of the rogueclassicist, the closest thing to anything ‘Classical’ for this date is the commemoration of the Protomartyrs of Rome (given a date of 64 A.D.) who were the Christians scapegoated by Nero for the big fire …

ante diem iv kalendas quinctilias

• 4 A.D. –the future emperor Tiberius adopts his nephew Germanicus
• 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Irenaeus at Lugdunum
• c. 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Potamiaena
• 1701 — Death of Thomas Creech (translator of various Latin poets)