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Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-15-2010
November 11, 305 AD: The former Augustus of the West Severus, who surrendered to the abdicated Maximian, is killed while under house arrest.
November 11, 308 AD: in an attempt to restore order, the abdicated Diocletian, Maximian (recently returned from abdication) and Galerius (augustus of the East) meet in Carnuntum. Diocletian refuses to return from his abdication. Galerius elevates Flavius Galerius Valerius Licinianus Licinius to the rank of Augustus. Galerius' nephew Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus ('Daia') is also elevated to Augustus.
November 11, 1028 AD: Death of the Roman emperor Constantine VIII (Greek: ???????????? ??, K?nstantinos VIII) (960 – 1028), who reinged from December 15, 1025 until his death. He was succeeded by his daughter Zoe ( (c. 978 – June 1050).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-15-2010
November 12, 1028 AD: Zoe, second daughter of Constantine VIII and Helena, becomes empress of the Roman empire after the death of her father the day before. Two days earlier she had been married to Romanus Argyrus, the prefect (eparch) of Constantinople (Romanos III), even though they were third cousins, according to the wishes of her dying father.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-15-2010
November 13, 354 AD: Birth of the later Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d. 430).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-15-2010
November 14, 465 AD: Death of Libius Severus (August 15 or November 14), possibly poisoned by Ricimer, or from natural causes.
November 14, 565 AD: Death of the Roman emperor Justinian I (Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus; Greek: ??????? ?????? ????????? ????????????). Commonly known as Justinian the Great, he was born in 483 and reigned from 527 to 565. He was the last Roman emperor to speak Latin as a first language.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-17-2010
November 16, 42 BC: Birth of Julius Caesar Augustus (November 16, 42 BC – March 16, AD 37), born Tiberius Claudius Nero, to become Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-17-2010
November 17, 9 AD: Birth of Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD.
November 17, 375 AD: Death of the emperor Flavius Valentinianus (Valentian I, b. 321 AD) while preparing another campaign across the Danube. He dies of a stroke in Brigetio (Komarom-Szöny) after being enraged by envoys of the Quadi.
November 17, 474 AD: Death of the 7-year old emperor Flavius Leo Junior (b. 467 – 17 November 474), leaving his Isaurian Zeno father sole emperor. His cause of death remains unknown, but he was said to have been poisoned by his mother Ariadne.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-22-2010
November 20, 270 AD: Birth of Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus, later Roman Emperor Maximinus II Daia (d. 313).
November 20, 284 AD: After the emperor Numerian falls ill and dies while retreating from the East, the troops proclaim the commander of the bodyguard Valerius Diocles (or as he became known; Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, b. 244), as new emperor. Since no-one has seen Numerian die, the suspicion of murder is laid on the prefect Aper (Diocles' competitor for the sudden imperial vacancy). Diocles, before the assempled army, is told to have raised his sword, swearing to his innocense while accusing Aper of killing Numerian and concealing it. He then runs him through while quoting from Virgil while doing so, according to the Historia Augusta. Soon after, Diocles changes his name to the more Latinate "Diocletianus", in full Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-22-2010
November 22, 244 AD: Official birthday of the emperor Diocletian, who was probably born near Salona in Dalmatia (Solin in modern Croatia) by the name of Diocles, or possibly Diocles Valerius. His actual birthday may well have been on a different day because the first forty years of his life are mostly obscure. His parents were of low status, and writers critical of him claimed that his father was a scribe or a freedman of the senator Anullinus, or even that Diocles was a freedman himself.
November 22, 375 AD: After the death of Valentian 5 days earlier (November 17), his younger son Flavius Valentinianus (Valentinian II) is made emperor by Valentinian's leading general Merobaudes (supported by the army) in Aquincum (Budapest).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-29-2010
November 26, 43 BC: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-29-2010
November 27, 8 BC: Death of the Roman poet Horace (b. 65 BC).
November 27, 176 AD: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
November 27, 395 AD: Execution of the Eastern praefectus praetorio Rufinus by Gainas before the gates of the city.
November 27, 450 AD: Death of Galla Placidia, daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla, at age 58 (b. 392).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 11-29-2010
November 28, 1118 AD: Birth of Manuel I Komnenos (d. September 24, 1180), Roman Emperor (April 5, 1143 – September 24, 1180).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-01-2010
December 1, 316 AD: the eastern emperor Licinius is defeated at Campus Ardiensis (a date between December 1, 316 and February 28, 317) by the army of his western collegue Constantine.
December 1, 356 AD: the caesar Julian is besieged in Agedincum (Sens) by the Alamanni.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-06-2010
December 5, 63 BC: Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman. He was put to death in the Tullianum for his support of the Catiline conspiracy.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 7, 43 BC: Death of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. january 3, 106 BC). After being proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate, he is assassinated.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 8, 65 BC Birth of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman poet (d. November 27, 8 BC).