585 BC Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome,
celebrated a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of
Collatia.
81 Roman emperor Titus, who was on the throne when Pompeii was
destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, died in Rome at age 40.
122
Construction of Hadrian's Wall began.
533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine
Empire defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near
Carthage, North Africa.
1321 Dante, author of "The Divine Comedy,"
died.
1475 Cesare Borgia was born.
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