2017: anniversaries to keep in mind
In 2017 many anniversaries must be remembered and taken into consideration:
17 C.E. the historian Titus Livius dies (‘Ab Urbe condita libri CXLII’);
117 C.E. Hadrian becomes emperor; also known for his relationship with Antinous and the Marguerite Yourcenar’s novel ‘Les mémoires d’Hadrien’ (‘Memoirs of Hadrian’);
317 C.E. in China, Sima Rui, becomes the first emperor of the eastern Jin, taking the name of Jin Yuandi. His capital was Jiankang, the future Nanjing;
417 C.E. Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius the Great, gets married with the general Flavius Costantius; their child is Valentinianus III; (altro…)