This Day in Ancient History
pridie kalendas maias

ludi Florae (day 4)

65 A.D. -- death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ... a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning)

304 A.D. -- beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius

311 A.D. -- Edict of Toleration of Galerius

1936 -- death of A.E. Housman
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