480 B.C. — Battle of Thermopylae ; death of Leonidas et al (by one reckoning) 480 B.C. — Battle of Artemesium (by one reckoning) 117 A.D. — dies imperii of the emperor Hadrian 275 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander the Charcoal Burner at Cremona 295 A.D. — martyrdom of Susanna at Rome 1928 — birth of Emily Vermeule (Greece in the Bronze Age)

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30 B.C. — Suicide of Cleopatra 7 A.D. — dedication of the ara Cereris Matris et Opis Augustae and associated rites thereafter 70 A.D. — Roman forces breach the walls of Jerusalem 1911 — birth of A.N. Sherwin-White (The Roman Citizenship)

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