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March 11, 2018
On 11 March 222, the teenage Roman Emperor Elagabalus was assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, the first woman accorded the official title of Augusta in the Roman Senate.

December 10, 2017
10 December: An Important Date in Eleventh-Century Byzantium.

June 16, 2017
Sculptor Pietro Bracci was born June 16, 1700 in Rome.

April 16, 2017
Though he had reigned only three months, Roman Emperor Marcus Salvius Otho had showed in this short time more wisdom and grace than anyone had expected when he committed suicide on 16 April 69 following defeat at the Battle of Bedriacum.

November 27, 2016
On 27 November 111, Antinous (the man who became first the companion of the Emperor Hadrian) was Born.

October 30, 2016
Julia, the only child of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) was born on 30 October in 39 BCE.

August 19, 2014
On this day in 14 CE, Gaius Octavius, known as Augustus, died in Rome.

November 7, 2013
This early first-century Roman marble portrait bust of Gaius Caesar sold at the Bonhams Antiquities auction on 23 October to an Italian buyer, meaning that Gaius can return home after a long absence.