17 JANUARY: WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY?
38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.[1] 1362 – Saint Marcellus’ flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.[2] 1377 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.[3] 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific […]
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