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24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard

24th January 2022
Tagged as: Ancient Rome, Assassination, Caligula, Politics, Roman Empire, Rome

Three Praetorian Guards cornered Caligula in a cryptoporticus beneath his palace on the Palatine Hill and stabbed him to death.

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16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps

16th January 2022
Tagged as: Ancient Rome, Augustus, Emperor, Julius Caesar, Octavian, Roman Empire, Rome

The title Augustus is understood to translate as ‘the illustrious one’ and, although the title did not grant Octavian him political authority, many historians see this as the point at which his rule as first Roman Emperor began.

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24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard

16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China when Mao releases the ‘May 16th Notification’

15th May 1928: Mickey Mouse’s first cartoon appearance

14th May 1796: English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tests the process of vaccination against smallpox using cowpox infection

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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