Elias Ashmole
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ante diem x kalendas junias Tubilustrium — a purification of the battle trumpets which, like the one which occurred in March, was designed to prepare the troops for war (perhaps … this tubilustrium is somehow connected with the following) Festival of Vulcan 1270 B.C. — Pierre Henri-Archer suggests this day for the fall of Troy…
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ante diem xv kalendas junias c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Venantius 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Theodotus 1692 — death of Elias Ashmole (founder of the museum that bears his name)
rogue classicism 