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.
Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred buildings.
On the 15th March 44BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death near to the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.
On the 24th January 41 CE, Caligula became the first Roman Emperor to be assassinated.
The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in Italy.
On the 16th January 27 BCE, the Roman Senate granted Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps.
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.
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