This Day in Ancient History
nonas sextilias

rites in honour of Salus on the Quirinal Hill

465 B.C. -- Xerxes I murdered by Artabanus (source?)

244 B.C. -- Brundisium becomes a Latin colony

ca. 79 B.C. -- birth of Tullia, daughter of Marcus Tullius Cicero

1540 -- birth of Joseph Justus Scaliger
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