Trajan, born in 53 AD in Italica, a Roman colony in present-day Spain, rose through the ranks of the Roman military to become one of the greatest military commanders and administrators in Roman history. On July 27, 98, the genius military commander became Roman…
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On January 1, 45 BC, Julius Caesar changed the way the West marked their calendars, making January 1 the first day of the new year. Prior to the Julian reform, the Roman calendar was a complex lunar calendar that often fell out of phase…
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