Tubilustrium -- a purification of the battle trumpets which, like the one which occurred in March, was designed to prepare the troops for war (perhaps ... this tubilustrium is somehow connected with the following)
Festival of Vulcan
1270 B.C. -- Pierre Henri-Archer suggests this day for the fall of Troy
63 B.C. -- Pompey takes Jerusalem (by one reckoning)
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