March

1 KAL MART NP Dies religiosus

Calendar Abbreviations

    Feriae Marti (Festival of Mars)
    New Year's Day. The salii set out dancing around the city, while beating their shields with their swords.
    Matronalia. Day celebrating Juno as the mother of the year.
    This was the last day of the carnival, the celebration from the Terminalia to the first day of spring.

4 (Greece) IV NON MART. C
    Anthesteria

6 III NON MART. C
    In 12 B.C. Augustus became pontifex maximus.

7 NON MART. F
    Dedication of the Temple of Vediovis in 192 B.C.
    Antoninus died in A.D. 161 and Marcus Aurelius became emperor. The emperor Geta was born in A.D. 189.

9 VII ID MART. C. Dies religiosus
    Arma ancilia moventur. Sacred shields carried around the city by the salii.
    (Greece)Feast of Adonis and Aphrodite.

11 V ID MART. C
    Emperor Elagabulus murdered in A.D. 222.
    (Greece) Festival of Herakles.

13 III ID MART. E (endotercisus = mornings or afternoons for voting, but the other period not)
    Alexander Severus became emperor in A.D. 222. In 4 B.C. King Herod the Great died.

14 PRID. ID MART. NP
    Equirria - horse racing festival.

15 ID. MART. NP
    Feriae Annae Perennae - a picnic day celebrating a female personification of the new year.
    Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar.

16 XVII KAL. APR. CF Dies religiosus
    Itur ad Argeos - a 2-day procession to the shrines of the Argei.
    Tiberius died A.D. 37. Nero died.
    Bacchanalia.

17 XVI KAL. APR. NP
    Itur ad Argeos - a procession to the shrines of the Argei.
    Liberalia - Liber was an old Italian god of fertility celebrated on this day by means of games held on the campus martius.
    Agonalia - Sacrifice or festival. Normal day for boys to come of age, put aside the purple-edged toga praetexta and bulla in the presence of his domestic gods (lares), and then registered at the tabularium in the forum as a member of the tribe and a full citizen. He then made a sacrifice to Liber or Iuventus or both. Then there was a grand family dinner and he was ready for tirocinium militiae (military service).
    Marcus Aurelius died in A.D. 180.

19 XIV KAL. APR. NP
    Quinquatrus - Five day holiday and festival for Mars, as well as a feast for Minerva.

21 (Greece) XII KAL. APR. C
    Festival of Demeter.

22 XI KAL. APR. F
    Festival of the Entry of the Tree - Priests of Cybele carried pine or palm trees through the streets. Palm Sunday may be derived from this.

23 X KAL. APR. NP Dies religiosus
    Tubiliustrium - purification of the trumpets.

24 IX KAL. APR. F
    Dies sanguinis - The last of nine days of fasting in honor of Cybele. Devotees of the goddess Cybele would practice self-flagellation on this day. It may be the origin of Good Friday.
    Calendars were marked QRCF (Quando Rex Comitavit Fas) although it's not known what this was for.
    This and the previous day were the only days the comitia calata met to sanction wills.

25 VIII KAL. APR. C
    Hilaria - Festival of Joy. Corresponds with Easter. The end of the fast.
    King Odoacer killed by Theodoric in A.D. 496.

26 VII KAL. APR. C.
    Day of rest - first in weeks without a celebration.

28 V KAL. APR. C
    Emperor Pertinax murdered in A.D. 193 AD. Didius Julianus became emperor.

30 III KAL. APR. C
    Festival of Salus - goddess of public safety and welfare.

31 PR. KAL. APR. C
    Lunae in Aventino - Festival of Luna.
    Emperor Constantius I born in A.D. 250.

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