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Nero's Suicide: End of Julio-Claudian Era (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (09 Jun 2025)
Today's historical events:
Nero commits suicide, after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
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