History Trivia - Cicero executed

December 7

 43 BC Roman orator and advocate Cicero was executed on the orders of Mark Antony. 

983 German King Otto III took the throne after his father's death in Italy. He was the fourth ruler of the Saxon (Ottonian) dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, being crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 997.

1254 Pope Innocent IV died. The pontificate of Innocent was marked by a long struggle with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, characteristic of the conflict between empire and papacy.

History Trivia - Last gladiator competition in Rome

January 1

45 BC Julius Caesar's calendar reform: 365 days in 12 months with leap years every four years was introduced.

43 BC Cicero delivered his Fifth Philippic (fifth of a series of speeches condemning Mark Antony) in the Roman Senate.

27 BC Octavian became the first emperor of Rome and took the name Caesar Augustus.

404 Last gladiator competition in Rome.

1431 Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) was born.

History Trivia - Cicero executed on the orders of Mark Antony

December 7,

43 BC Roman orator and advocate Cicero was executed on the orders of Mark Antony.

983 German King Otto III took the throne after his father's death in Italy. He was the fourth ruler of the Saxon (Ottonian) dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, being crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 997.

1254 Pope Innocent IV died. The pontificate of Innocent was marked by a long struggle with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, characteristic of the conflict between empire and papacy.

History Trivia - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

January 3

106 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was born.

1098 Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester, died. 

1431 Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Legal proceedings began on 9 January 1431 at Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government where Joan was found guilty of heresy, and was burned at the stake on May 30.

1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine.

1521  Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther, German theologian and Protestant reformer for heresy, in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

History Trivia - Roman orator Cicero assassinated

December 7

43 BC Roman orator and advocate Cicero was assassinated on the orders of Marc Antony.

983 German King Otto III took the throne after his father's death in Italy. He was the fourth ruler of the Saxon (Ottonian) dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, being crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 997.

 1254 Pope Innocent IV died. The pontificate of Innocent was marked by a long struggle with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, characteristic of the conflict between empire and papacy.