Opiconsivia -- rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus
79 A.D. -- death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii
325 A.D. -- Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the Nicene Creed, the 'Twenty Canons', etc..
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