Mar 8, 2019
On This Day | 8 March
Events
In 161 CE, Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius was succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus following his death - an unprecedented political arrangement in the Empire.
In 321 CE, Roman Emperor Constantine I (the Great) decreed that the dies Solis Invicti (literally 'day of the Unconquered Sun’) was a day of rest.
Births
In 148 CE, Lucilla, a Roman noblewoman, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, and sister of Commodus, was born in Rome.
In 189 CE, Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor between 209 and 211 CE, was born in Rome.
Deaths
In 161 CE Antoninus Pius, the 15th Emperor of Rome who reigned between 138 and 161 CE, died aged 74.
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