What happened on your birthday in Roman history?

[AngryAmish]

I'm 10/27 "On this day in 97 AD, the Roman emperor Nerva adopted Trajan as his successor". Pretty boring, huh?

Anyone born on the Ides of March (3/15)? Battle of Zama? Death of Caligula?

Find out here

[Beaverhausen]

1. On this day in 64 AD two-thirds of Rome burned while Emperor Nero

...alledgedly fiddled.

[LiberalVoice]

2. At least something happened on your bday!

Nothing on mine...but the next day on Mar 25th is when Constantine I was elected pope in 708 AD.

[flamingyouth]

3. December 27... cool:

On this day in 537 AD the third Cathedral of Santa Sophia at Constantinople was dedicated. The first two were destroyed but this one is still in use, a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture.

[AngryAmish]

7. You should go check it out

Everyone I know who has been there raves.

[Longgrain]

4. Nothing apparently according to that calender

There's no link to my B'Day.

[Cush]

5. May 13: Nothing

[MrScorpio]

6. Oct 27 is my birthday too

Thanks for doing ours first

[MountainLaurel]

22. Shit, me too. n/t

[kdmorris]

8. Nothing happened

I guess that was the day the world stood still :D

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[deadparrot]

9. February 2nd...

* On this day in 506 AD The Brevairum, a code of laws for the subjects of Alaric II, King of the Goths, was drafted at Toulouse.
* On this day in 1208 AD James I (the Conqueror) King of Aragon was born.

[Taxloss]

10. I was born on 8th March, the end of the Ides.

"The Ides of March are come, Caesar."

"Aye, but not gone."

I have another Caesar-Shakespearean aspect to my birth; I'm a man not born of woman, ripp'd untimely from my mother's womb. A Caesarian section, to be precise. What are the chances, eh?

ON Edit: 8th March.

[TheMightyFavog]

11. 1/17 Something very important...

* On this day in 69 AD Otho committed suicide after a night of meditation in his tent.
* On this day in 395 AD the Roman Empire was split into eastern and western parts upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I, whose will provided that his two sons would inherit the two parts.

[Osamasux]

12. Crap, I got nothing.

Stupid Romans.

[Huckebein the Raven]

13. Nothing happened on my birthday

[July]

14. Wow, birth of Caligula, suicide of Cleopatra, who knew? nt

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. August 24

Major Happenings:
- On this day in 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupted violently and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny the Elder died of asphyxiation at age 56 while witnessing the scene from the coast.
- On this day in 410 Alaric, leader of the Visigoths, sacked Rome, but spared its churches.
- On this day in 1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England was born.

[politicaholic]

16. King Edward died on his way to conquer Scotland, serves him right.

Better than getting a Claymore in the head I guess.

[mermaid]

17. Crap. May 24th. Zilch. This Sucks.

even the day of my Re-Birthday, October 30...nothing. This really sucks.

Damn.

Then again, there was a famous quote in a journal, once, I forget whose...on the entry for the date July 4, 1776, that said "Nothing important happened today."

[Not_Giving_Up]

18. September 28th

* On this day in 48 BC Pompey the Great, the noted Roman general, was murdered in Egypt, one day before his 58th birthday.
* On this day in 1066 William the Conqueror and his Norman army arrived in England, landing at Pevensey.

[Blaukraut]

19. Alexander the Great dies

Gnaeus Julius Agricola is born, Pope Leo I presents his tome, and Charles the Bald is born. (June 13, of course not all in the same year. heh)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

24. Got Alexander born on mine n/t

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

20. Pope John XXII was crowned, in 1313 A.D.

September 5, 1313. Are you impressed?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

21. June 15th El Cid

On this day in 1094, El Cid, the great Spanish national hero, captured Valencia from the Moors.

[u4ic]

23. Aug 25

Interesting Notes:

The General Council of Nice was held from June 19th - August 25th of 325 AD. Among other things "the question, touching the day for the celebration of the Feast of Easter, was settled. It was to be kept on the first Sunday after the first "Calendar" full moon, happening upon, or next after, the 21st of March; and if the full moon happened on a Sunday, Easter-day was to be the next Sunday following."

Major Happenings:

-On this day in 608 AD Boniface IV became Roman Catholic pope.
-On this day in 1270 King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) died in northern Africa while leading the Eight Crusade.


Not much, though in not_so_ancient history Paris was liberated on Aug 25, 1944. I think that's more exciting...

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Nothing for me

All those years of the Empire, and never did anything of interest happen on my birthday. Well, son of a gun.