This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas sextilias

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)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas sextilias

ante diem v kalendas sextilias

ante diem iii idus quinctilias

ludi Apollinares (day 8)– 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
431 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Apollo outside the pomoerium (and associated rites thereafter)
100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar (another possible day)
ca. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Myrope

ante diem iv idus quinctilias

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 ix kalendas quinctilias

47 B.C. — birth of Caesarion, a.k.a Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor (son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra)
79 A.D. — death of the emperor Vespasian
1986 — death of Moses Finley