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Showing posts with label Caesar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caesar. Show all posts
Thursday, May 19, 2016

9 of history's best quotes

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History Extra Queen Victoria, who reportedly said "We are not amused". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Neil Armst...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

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History Extra A bust of Gaius Julius Caesar. By March 44 BC, the great general had made some powerful enemies by increasingly acting...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

History Trivia - Octavian founds Roman Empire

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January 23 7 BC, Augustus Caesar (Octavian) founded the Roman Empire that would last until A.D. 476.  Octavian was granted the title ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

The bloody rise of Augustus

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History Extra The statue of Imperator Caesar Augustus © AKG Images Before his death 2,000 years ago in August AD 14, the ageing Roman ...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

History Trivia - The Parthenon in Athens severely damaged by a gunpowder explosion

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Sept 26  46 BC Julius Caesar dedicated a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battl...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

History Trivia - Leonidas and his Spartan army defeated at Thermopylae

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August 9  480 BC The Persian army defeated Leonidas and his Spartan army at Thermopylae, Persia. 48 BC – Caesar's civil war: B...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

History Trivia -King Richard I, the Lion-Hearted, dies

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April 6  46 BC – Julius Caesar defeated Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the battle of Thapsus.  402 Stilicho ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

History Trivia - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon - Pompey flees to Greece

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January 10  49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon without disbanding his army, which signaled the start of civil war in Rome. Pompey a...