This Day in Ancient History
ante diem iii idus apriles

421 B.C. -- Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning)

90 A.D. -- martyrdom of Antipas

145 A.D. -- birth of the future emperor Septimius Severus


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