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Message:: [QUOTE="Bing, post: 1673440, member: 44132"]24/3 1603 Elizabeth I of England died. Elizabeth Tudor, the “Virgin Queen”, is mainly remembered for the flourishing of English drama, with playwrights such as William Shakespeare. Being Anne Boleyn’s daughter was not easy for her, since she was considered illegitimate soon after her mother’s execution.Her half-brother Edward VI died in 1553 and left his crown to his wife Lady Jane Grey, excluding both Elizabeth and her sister Mary from the succession. But Lady Grey was deposed, and soon after Mary's death, in 1558, Elizabeth ascended to the throne.She never married, and had no descendents. She died on March 24, 1603, and was succeeded by James VI of Scotland. [HR][/HR]26/3 49 B.C. Ptolemy XIII drowns in the Nile after fleeing Caesar's forces. Ptolemy XIII had allied with his sister Arsinoe IV to depose Cleopatra VII, his wife and Julius Caesar’s lover. They battled in Alexandria, where Roman reinforcements gave the victory for Cleopatra, forcing Arsinoe and Ptolemy to flee the city. While crossing the Nile, Ptolemy, who was not fifteen years old, drowned, ending the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. [HR][/HR]28/3 193 A.D. Pertinax murdered while courageously confronting an angry mob of soldiers.Pertinax ruled for only 86 days in the year that would be later remembered as the “Year of the Five Emperors”. During his short reign, he increased the silver purity of the denarii, a measure that would not survive his death. He had promised the Praetorian Guard a generous pay before his ascension, but some historians say he only paid half their promised donativum. This incited an angry mob of soldiers to brake into his palace and murder him.After his death, the imperial position was auctioned, and Didus Julianus won it, becoming the new emperor of Rome. [/QUOTE]

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