Nero, the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, committed suicide.
14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact
14th May 2020
On the 21st April 753 BC, the ancient city of Rome was founded.
The future Roman Emperor Titus began the Siege of Jerusalem, during which the Second Temple was burned and destroyed.
On the 15th March 44BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death near to the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.
Emperor Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in the ancient city of Nicomedia, marking the start of the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians.
On the 24th January 41 CE, Caligula became the first Roman Emperor to be assassinated.
On the 16th January 27 BCE, the Roman Senate granted Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps.
After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle of Zama.
Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of Byzantium.
Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018