Another notable figure bearing the name Agustin in the early 19th century was Augustin I of Mexico. He was a general in the Mexican army who eventually became the Emperor of the First Mexican Empire. This was because he played a significant role in the Mexican War of Independence....
Apart from the absence of national borders, the old world was surprisingly hip. Tourists and students travelled regularly between Persia, Egypt, Israel and Hellas, and contemporary records even show Buddhist missionaries from India in the Rome of Augustus. Merchant fleets and caravans put locals any...
Appius Claudius (505 - 480 BC), the empire founder, was born long before Claudius (10 BC-AD 54), the emperor who was believed to have some kind of disability. So the name obviously precedes the famous disabled bearer, both in History and in his personal life, since his disabilities ...
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (37-68) was seventeen years old when he became emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (54-68) . He was the nephew of Caligula and the great-great-grandson of Augustus through his mother Agrippina, and the grandnephew of Augustus through his father's materna...
Though it sounds like a chopped-off variation of Olivia, which means olive, the distinctively attractive Livia has been an independent name since the days of the ancient Romans, when it belonged to Livia Drusilla—the powerful wife of the Emperor Augustus—and is still commonly heard in modern...
Though it sounds like a chopped-off variation of Olivia, which means olive, the distinctively attractive Livia has been an independent name since the days of the ancient Romans, when it belonged to Livia Drusilla—the powerful wife of the Emperor Augustus—and is still commonly heard in modern...
(Christ’s birth) was said to be the 28th year after Augustus became the emperor of Rome.Today,this calculation seems to be incorrect.Historians believe that Christ was actually born four years before this date,but changing the calendar now would only cause confusion around the world because ...
“God made manifest and universal Saviour of human life”, and his successor Augustus was called the “ancestral God and Saviour of the whole human race” (Man and his Gods, Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952). Emperor Nero (54-68), whose original name was Lucius Domitius...
October, which was the 8th month in old calendar, became October after the reform. As September, although the calendar had been reformed, it still remains its original name. The English word October derives from the Latin Octo, which means eight. November Since the emperor of Rome Augustus an...
These Liberators were aiming to liberate Rome from Totalitarianism, but their resistance ended at the Battle of Philippi. Under Julius' adopted son Octavian, the Republic breathed its last and the monstrous Roman Empire emerged as Octavian became the divine Emperor Augustus. Half a century later (...