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Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 9, 480 AD: Odoacar invades Dalmatia, and defeats an army led by Odiva or Ovida.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 10, 536 AD: Belisarius enters Rome without opposition (or December 10).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 11, 969 AD: the emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (b. c.912) is assassinated by his wife Theofano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes. The conspirators went into the palace dressed as women and thus avoided being searched by the palace guard, then entered the imperial bed chamber and cut off his head. An inscription carved on the side of his tomb reads: "You conquered all but a woman".
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-13-2010
December 12, 627 AD: Battle of Nineveh: A Roman army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. After the siege of Constantinople, heraclius had used the aid of the Gök Turks to go on a counteroffensive. After damaging the persian army by leading them into the Persian heartland instead of following them, both sides came to battle on the plains west of the Great Zab river. After eight hours of fighting, the Persians suddenly retreated to nearby foothills, but it was not a rout, although 6,000 Persians fell. According to one account, Rhahzadh challenged Heraclius to personal combat. Heraclius accepted and killed Rhahzadh in a single thrust; two other challengers fought and also lost.
With no opposition, Heraclius' army plundered the persian imperial palace at Dastagird, recovering 300 captured Byzantine flags. The Persian army rebelled and overthrew Khosrau II, raising his son Kavadh II, who immediately sued for peace. Under the peace treaty, the Byzantines regained all their lost territories, their captured soldiers, a war indemnity, and most importantly for them, the True Cross and other relics that were lost in Jerusalem in 614.
This was to be the last Roman victory in Mesopotamia.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-14-2010
December 15, 533 AD: Battle of Tricamarum, some 30 miles west of Carthage. Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer. The Roman cavalry charged the Vandal lines three times, and during the last charge Gelimer's brother Tzazon was killed within sight of the Vandal king. Like at Ad Decimum, Gelimer lost heart and the Vandal lines began to retreat, and soon routing. Gelimer fled into Numidia with the remains of his army, with 3,000 Vandals killed or taken prisoner. Belisarius marched on the city of Hippo Regius and captures many Vandal civilians and the royal treasure.
Re: On This Day... - Gaius Julius Caesar - 12-14-2010
A good day for Belisarius!
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-15-2010
Quote:A good day for Belisarius!Very much so! Had he faced a more resolved opponent who would not have been distracted, the Romans could easily have ended their reconquest of Africa there and then. The army was not a united force, which was one of the major handicaps (next to underfunding and manpower shortage) which became apparent later in Italy.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 17, 546 AD: Totila conquers Rome - Belisarius (without proper means for defence) retreats from the city, which is partly burned down by the Ostrogoths.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 18, 218 BC: Battle of the Trebia (or Trebbia), the first major battle of the Second Punic War. Hannibal defeated the Roman army under consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, who managed to inflict casulaties with his centre of trained heavy infantry, while his untrained troops and allies were defeated by the Carthaginians.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 19, 211 AD: Death of Publius Septimius Geta (born 7 March 189), co-emperor of Rome since 209, who is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. Upon arrival he is murdered by the Praetorian Guard murders - he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.
December 19, 324 AD: Gaius Valerius Licinianus Licinius (c. 263 – 325), commonly known as Licinius, abdicates as emperor as is exiled, after being dfeated earlier (September) at Chrysopolis. Licinius was Roman Emperor from 308 to 324.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 20, 69 AD: Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian, 17 November 9 – 23 June 79) enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 21, 69 AD: Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian, 17 November 9 – 23 June 79) becomes Emperor.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-22-2010
December 22, 69 AD: Vitellius (born September 15 AD) is captured in his hiding place and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. He was Emperor for 8 months.
December 22, 244 AD: Birth of Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus / Diocletian (d. 311), later Roman Emperor (284 to 305).
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-23-2010
December 23, 245 AD: Birth of Zenobia, future Queen of Palmyra (267-274).
December 23, 400 AD: The rebellious magister militum praesentalis Gainas retreats across the Danube and is killed by the Huns under Uldin.
December 23, 962 AD: Battle of Aleppo: under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Roman troops storm the city and take possession of 390,000 silver dinars, 2,000 camels, and 1,400 mules.
Re: On This Day... - Robert Vermaat - 12-28-2010
December 24, 3 BC: Birth of Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69).
December 24, 563 AD: The Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.