ante diem ix kalendas sextilias
ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)
64 A.D. -- the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)
69 A.D. -- sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)
133 A.D. -- the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt -- Betar -- fell to the Romans (?)
1895 -- Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)
1978 -- death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)
ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)
64 A.D. -- the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)
69 A.D. -- sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)
133 A.D. -- the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt -- Betar -- fell to the Romans (?)
1895 -- Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)
1978 -- death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)