BARtakes a look back at some important events in history that happened during the months of March and April.
March 10, 241 B.C.E. Battle of Aegusa. The Romans sink 50 Carthaginian ships off the coast of Sicily in a decisive naval victory to end the First Punic War.
March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 B.C.E. Gaius Julius Caesar is killed on the floor of the Senate House in Rome after receiving multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest.
April 1903 Gottlieb Schumacher begins excavations at Megiddo.
April 14, 73 C.E. The Mass Suicide at Masada. The palace/fortress at Masada—built by King Herod the Great in the first century B.C.E.—became a refuge for Zealots fleeing Jerusalem from the advancing Roman Tenth Legion. When it becomes clear to the Zealots’ leader, Eleazar ben Yair, that defeat is imminent, he orders the rebel defenders of the city to commit mass suicide rather than be captured.
April 21, 753 B.C.E. Traditional date of the founding of Rome on the Capitoline Hill.
April 24, 1184 B.C.E. Traditional date of the Greek assault on the city of Troy, using a massive wooden horse as a ruse to get inside the walled city.
BAR takes a look back at some important events in history that happened during the months of March and April.
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