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Today 31BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
Today 49 BC Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
Today 28BC Gaius Carrinas triumphant procession through Rome. Gaius Carrinas was a Roman politician, general and consul.
In 45 BC, Carrinas was sent on the orders of Julius Caesar to Spain to fight Sextus and Gnaeus Pompeius.
Rome. A rare picture of the Palatine in 1850 with the Arch of Constantine and the Meta Sudans in front of the Colosseum
Janus is the god of beginnings and endings, and doorways. His festival was held on January 17th. The Romans named January, the first month of the year, after Janus,