ludi Cereri continue (day 4)-- games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. Fordicidia -- an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus 421 B.C. -- Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a. the Archidamian War) to an end (by one reckoning) 69 A.D. -- the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho 251 A.D. -- Martyrdom of Maximus and Olympiades in Persia
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