Showing posts with label Titus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Titus. Show all posts

Sunday, June 5, 2016

History Trivia - Siege of Jerusalem

June 5


70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
 

Monday, May 30, 2016

History Trivia - Siege of Jerusalem

May 30


70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breached the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish wars financed the construction of the Flavian Amphitheater,  which took ten years to build.
 

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

History Trivia - Siege of Jerusalem

May 10



70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, opened a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacked the city's Third Wall to the northwest.

Friday, June 5, 2015

History Trivia - The Battle of New Ross

June 5

 70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.

1099 Members of the First Crusade witnessed an eclipse of the moon and interpreted it as a sign they would recapture Jerusalem.

 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster was defeated.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

History Trivia - Emperor Titus dies

Sept 14

81 Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

891 Pope Stephen V died. The pontificate of Stephen witnessed the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire.

1523 Pope Adrian VI died. Adrian VI was the only Dutch pope, and the last non-Italian pope to be elected until Pope John Paul II in the twentieth century.