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Hadrian

Hadrian, Roman emperor. This site has 3 entries dated between AD 76 and AD 138 involving Hadrian, listed in chronological order with the Roman date and calendar of each.

  1. January 24 · a.d. IX Kal. Feb. · Julian date · ≈ Jan 22 on our calendar
    Birth of Hadrian (AD 76)
  2. November 21 · a.d. XI Kal. Dec. · Julian date · ≈ Nov 20 on our calendar
    Hadrian at the Colossi of Memnon (AD 130)
  3. January 1 · Kal. Ian. · Julian date · ≈ Dec 31 on our calendar
    Death of Lucius Aelius Caesar (AD 138)
LATIN LINE OF THE DAY

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura quae legis hic.

“Some are good, some middling, more are bad, of what you read here.”

Martial, Epigrams 1.16 · translation ours (literal)