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History Extra Title page from the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/P...

Live Science The First Folio was discovered in the collection of the Mount Stuar...

January 29 1119 Pope Gelasius II died. The brief reign of Gelasius II was plagued by the lingering investiture controversy and the agg...

November 1 All Saints Day. 193 Pertinax became emperor of Rome whose reign lasted three months.   He was known as the first empe...

April 23 215 BC A temple was built on the Capitoline Hill and dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasi...

November 27  8 BC, Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) the great Roman lyric poet, died at Venusia, in Apulia at age 56. 176 Emper...