Nero's Marriage to Octavia: A Political Move Gone Wrong (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (09 Jun 2026) Today's historical events: The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. 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. Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard. 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. Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail. Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices