A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Nero's Suicide: End of Julio-Claudian Era (+ 9 more historical events on this day!)


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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.
  • Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
  • Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
  • James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
  • The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
  • Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
  • End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.

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