Parentalia (day 1) — a festival for honouring/appeasing the dead began on this day with a number of signs: temples were closed, altars did not have fires burn on them, people were forbidden to get married, and magistrates set down the trappings of their office. Fornacalia (day 1) — this was actually a “feriae conceptivae”,…

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them https://phys.org/news/2026-02-wheat-barley-rye-grew-farmers.html Archaeological Finds in Ancient Tyras Reveal What Life Was Like for a Roman Soldier on the Empire’s Frontier Archaeological Finds in Ancient Tyras Reveal What Life Was Like for a Roman Soldier on the Empire’s Frontier…

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11 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius marries Julia, daughter of Augustus

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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Kynos Archaeological Site in Central Greece Approved for €2.78m Preservation Project | GTP Headlines https://news.gtp.gr/2026/02/10/kynos-archaeological-site-in-central-greece-approved-for-e2-78m-preservation-project/ Why Aristotle would hate Valentine’s Day – and his five steps to love https://theconversation.com/why-aristotle-would-hate-valentines-day-and-his-five-steps-to-love-275460 Alexandria on the Tigris: Exploring the forgotten and rediscovered metropolis https://phys.org/news/2026-02-alexandria-tigris-exploring-forgotten-rediscovered.html#goog_rewarded Germany, Roman basilica, staircase and altar resurface in basement of Cologne’s MiQua…

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41 A.D. — birth of Britannicus, son of the Emperor Claudius and Messalina 50 – 55 A.D.(?) — birth of Domitia Longina (wife of the emperor Domitian)

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