Parentalia (Day 5) -- the period for appeasing the dead continued
Quirinalia -- festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival.
304 A.D. -- martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice
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