Lemuria continues (day 2) -- a private and public appeasement of the dead; the Roman paterfamilias would rise at midnight to conduct a ritual involving beans and bronze
rites in honour of Mania -- a Roman divinity who was considered the goddess of the dead; she was also the mother of the Lares
330 A.D. -- Constantine renames Byzantium and makes it his capital
1988 A.D. -- death of E.T. Salmon (Samnium and the Samnites)
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