ante diem vii kalendas novembres

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
• 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
• ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
• 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled
• 1917 — birth of Machteld Mellink (archaeologist and staunch advocate against the trade of looted antiquities)
• 1918 — birth of Dietrich von Bothmer (curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan)
• 2008 — death of Fr Michele Piccirillo (co founder of the mosaic museum in Jordan)

ante diem xi kalendas novembres

• 4004 B.C. — 9.00 a.m. … according to Bishop Ussher, God created the universe
• 50 B.C. — the ‘Civil War’ between Pompey and Caesar began (not sure where this one comes from)
• 1915 — Birth of Barbara Craig (Classical archaeologist)
• 2000 — death of H.D. Jocelyn (The Tragedies of Ennius)
• 2000 — death of John Kent (numismatist)
• 2013 — death of Elizabeth Frances Jones (Classicist)