10-29-2010, 06:29 AM
October 28, 97 AD: The emperor Marcus Cocceius Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
October 28, 312 AD: Death of the emperor Maxentius (b. 278) at the battle of the Milvian bridge near Rome. Maxentius, on the very ay of his 6th anniversary of his assumption of the throne, fell into the water when the bridge collapsed under the weight of his retreating troops, and he drowned. His body was found the next day and paraded through the city, and later sent to Africa, as a sign that he had surely perished.
October 28, 456 AD: The Visigoths take Bracarense (Braga) on October 28 and sack the city. End of the Suevic kingdom.
October 28, 312 AD: Death of the emperor Maxentius (b. 278) at the battle of the Milvian bridge near Rome. Maxentius, on the very ay of his 6th anniversary of his assumption of the throne, fell into the water when the bridge collapsed under the weight of his retreating troops, and he drowned. His body was found the next day and paraded through the city, and later sent to Africa, as a sign that he had surely perished.
October 28, 456 AD: The Visigoths take Bracarense (Braga) on October 28 and sack the city. End of the Suevic kingdom.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
