On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being poisoned.
17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome
17th December 2020
On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being poisoned.
The 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Nero, the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, committed suicide.
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.