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3114 B.C.: World Created According to Maya Calendar

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3114 B.C.: World Created According to Maya Calendar

According to the Maya Calendar, the world we live was created on this day in 3114 B.C. In order to keep t ...

According to the Maya Calendar, the world we live was created on this day in 3114 B.C. In order to keep track of the date, the Maya people used a sophisticated calendar based around the number 20. The ...

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378: Emperor Valens’s Four Fatal Mistakes – The Roman Defeat at Adrianople

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378: Emperor Valens’s Four Fatal Mistakes – The Roman Defeat at Adrianople

On this day in 378, a Visigoth army under King Fritigern decisive defeated an Eastern Roman army under th ...

On this day in 378, a Visigoth army under King Fritigern decisive defeated an Eastern Roman army under the personal leadership of Emperor Valens. Previously, in 376, the Visigoths, fleeing before the ...

August 09, 2019
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216 BC: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory

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216 BC: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory

One of the most important and most researched battles in human history took place on this day in 216 BC. ...

One of the most important and most researched battles in human history took place on this day in 216 BC. An army of 50,000 Carthaginians under the famed general Hannibal faced a much larger Roman army ...

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54 BC: Aurelia Cotta – Mother of Julius Caesar

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54 BC: Aurelia Cotta – Mother of Julius Caesar

On this day in 54 BC, Aurelia Cotta, the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar, died. She was ...

On this day in 54 BC, Aurelia Cotta, the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar, died. She was born in the year 120 BC and married Caesar’s father, who was a Roman senator and a praetor, als ...

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69: Roman Legions Proclamed Vespasian Emperor

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69: Roman Legions Proclamed Vespasian Emperor

On this day in the year 69, Roman troops in Egypt elected Vespasian as the Roman emperor. This took place ...

On this day in the year 69, Roman troops in Egypt elected Vespasian as the Roman emperor. This took place during the tumultuous era after the death of Nero, in which there was a succession of several ...

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69: How did the Roman Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor?

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69: How did the Roman Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor?

On this day in the year 69, Roman troops in Egypt elected Vespasian as the Roman emperor. This took place ...

On this day in the year 69, Roman troops in Egypt elected Vespasian as the Roman emperor. This took place during the tumultuous era after the death of Nero, in which there was a succession of several ...

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363: Roman emperor died in Iraq

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363: Roman emperor died in Iraq

On this day Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate died in present-day Iraq. Such a place of death seems unus ...

On this day Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate died in present-day Iraq. Such a place of death seems unusual for one Roman emperor, but the gist of it was that Julian was invading Persian Empire with ...

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217 BC: Hannibal Massacres Romans

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217 BC: Hannibal Massacres Romans

On this day the famous Battle of Lake Trasimene took place, in which the Carthaginian military commander ...

On this day the famous Battle of Lake Trasimene took place, in which the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal achieved one of the greatest victories over the Roman army in history. Hannibal’s tact ...

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