| 15 October: | Virgil, Roman poet, is born Publius Vergilius Maro in Virgilio in Lombardy. |
Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pompey Magnus and Mark Antony celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 70 BC was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 167 BC, 156 BC, 150 BC, 139 BC, 128 BC, 122 BC, 111 BC, 100 BC, 94 BC, 83 BC in the century before it and 66 BC, 55 BC, 44 BC, 38 BC, 27 BC, 16 BC, 10 BC, 3, 14 and 25 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
births
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deaths
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political
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scientific
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artistic
and
other
historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays
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The new
,
waxing
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full
and
waning
icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.