On This Day
211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, instructing them to make peace.[1]
Septimius Severus (/səˈvɪərəs/; Latin: Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus;[4] 11 April 145 – 4 February 211), also known as Severus, was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the cursus honorum—the customary succession of offices—under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.
After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the Roman generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger was defeated in 194 at the Battle of Issus in Cilicia. Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province. Severus defeated Albinus three years later at the Battle of Lugdunum in Gaul.
After consolidating his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding the eastern frontier to the Tigris. He then enlarged and fortified the Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea. In 202 he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes; capturing their capital Garama and expanding the Limes Tripolitanus along the southern desert frontier of the empire. He proclaimed as Augusti (co-emperors) his elder son Caracalla in 198 and his younger son Geta in 209.
In 208 he travelled to Britain, strengthening Hadrian’s Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall. In the same year he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland), but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill of an infectious disease, in late 210. Severus died in early 211 at Eboracum (today York, England), and was succeeded by his sons, thus founding the Severan dynasty. It was the last dynasty of the Roman empire before the Crisis of the Third Century.
Born On This Day
1575 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian, founded the French school of spirituality (d. 1629)
Pierre de Bérulle, Cong. Orat. (4 February 1575 – 2 October 1629), was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France. He was the founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples Vincent de Paul and Francis de Sales.
FYI
By Greg Evans: Kristoff St. John Remembered By Co-Stars From ‘The Young & The Restless’, ‘Roots: Next Generation’, Others
Kristoff St. John (July 15, 1966 – c. February 3, 2019) was an American actor. From 1991 to 2019, he portrayed the role of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless, which earned him nine Daytime Emmy Award nominations and ten NAACP Image Awards.
Posted by Sagar Savla, Product Manager, Machine Perception: Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN: For millennials, cancers fueled by obesity are on rise, study says
By David Tracy: NASCAR Engine Expert Explains Why You Should Warm Your Car Up When It’s Cold Outside
By Michael Ballaban: Tucker 48: The Car Too Good For Detroit
Gizmodo Science: First Dinosaur Feather Ever Discovered Isn’t What Scientists Thought; New Star Map Reveals the Milky Way Is Warped; Doctors Zap the Brains of Awake Brain Surgery Patients to Make Them Laugh and Have Fun and more ->
The Passive Voice: The No. 1 Rule in Any Negotiation; A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions and more ->
By Stephanie Donovan: Blog Profiles: Technology Blogs
Weekly digest for Beyond Bylines, on February 4, 2019
By Samantha Schnurr: Why SpongeBob SquarePants Made a Cameo During the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show
Adam Levine responds to critics after Super Bowl halftime show
Today’s email was written by Lucas Reilly, edited by Whet Moser, and produced by Luiz Romero. Quartz Obsession: Scissors: Cutting edge since 1500 BC
By Jeffrey Mervis: One of Indiana’s new congressmen is a Vietnam veteran, a farmer … and a scientist
The infantrymen whom Jim Baird led in Vietnam fondly called him “pig farmer” because of his passion for breeding pigs. Now, nearly a half-century after he was helicoptered out of a firefight in which he lost his left arm, Baird answers to a new moniker: congressman.
He’s the only rookie legislator with a science Ph.D. on the newly reformulated science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. And he’s the only Republican among the three members of the 37-person panel holding such a degree.
Open Culture: The “Slave Bible” Removed Key Biblical Passages In Order to Legitimize Slavery & Discourage a Slave Rebellion (1807); Explore an Interactive Version of The Wall of Birds, a 2,500 Square-Foot Mural That Documents the Evolution of Birds Over 375 Million Years; How Dorothea Lange Shot, Migrant Mother, Perhaps the Most Iconic Photo in American History and more ->
By Sean Braswell: How to Swear Like a 19th-Century Sailor
Why you should care
Because a dirty and dangerous world largely devoid of women can lead to a rather creative vocabulary.
The Rural Blog: Voting precincts, especially in rural areas, slow to integrate mapping technology into voter registration systems; Report: driverless cars can’t solve rural transportation woes without broadband and better-marked roads; Electric co-ops seen as popular solution to rural broadband, but may take years to improve rural access and more ->
MessyNessy 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCXXXIX): The ridiculously dangerous sport of “Auto Polo”; One of the first female singer/ songwriters who performed in the 50s, quit in the 60s, vanished in the 70s, and became known in the 00s; Unreleased Queen & David Bowie Music; This “Water Tree” in Montenegro and more ->
Great story and comments!
By Bill Owens: Less Than 6K Miles: 1976 Chevrolet Chevette
Ideas
By Hometalk Highlights: 13 Cleaning Tricks That People With Spotless Living Rooms Swear By
Claire at Pillarboxblue Hometalker: Glamourous Oyster Shell Candles
wikimedia
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 22 November 22, 2024Picture of the day Sanderling (Calidris alba) looking for food on the beach of Westkapelle, Netherlands
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 21 November 21, 2024Picture of the day This technical illustration shows early hot air balloon designs. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on this day in 1783.
Recipes
Widget not in any sidebars
Widget not in any sidebars
Widget not in any sidebars