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On October 13, 54: Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.

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Featured moment · 54

Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.

AD 54 (LIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus. The denomination AD 54 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

People

Born on October 13

Caleb McLaughlin 2001– American actor (born 2001)
Cam Thomas 2001– American basketball player (born 2001)
De'Von Achane 2001– American football player and sprinter (born 2001)
Andrew Capobianco. American diver 1999– American diver (born 1999)
Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong activist (born 1996)
Jimin 1995– South Korean singer (born 1995)
Ryan Matterson 1994– Australian rugby league footballer
Yuta Watanabe 1994– Japanese basketball player (born 1994)
Tiffany Trump 1993– Daughter of Donald Trump (born 1993)
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Igor Ozhiganov 1992– Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Shelby Rogers 1992– American tennis player (born 1992)
Andrej Rendla 1990– Slovak footballer
Adrián Sardinero 1990– Spanish footballer (born 1990)
Jakob Silfverberg 1990– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1990)
Brace Belden 1989– American podcaster and union organizer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989– American politician and activist (born 1989)
Clive Rose 1989– Australian cricketer (born 1989)
Norris Cole 1988– American basketball player (born 1988)

People

Died on October 13

Mayra Gómez Kemp Cuban-Spanish television host and actress (1948–2024)
Donal Murray Irish Catholic bishop (1940–2024)
Louise Glück American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Annapurna Devi Indian musician (1927–2018)
Albert Zafy President of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016
Dario Fo Italian playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, director, and politician Jim Prentice Premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall American historian (1939–2015)
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Bruce Hyde American actor
Michael J. H. Walsh English general (born 1927)
John Bradfield British biologist and entrepreneur
Antonio Cafiero Argentine politician
Margaret Hillert American writer
Mohammad Sarengat Indonesian sprinter
Pontus Segerström Swedish footballer
Martin Drewes German World War II fighter pilot
Joe Meriweather American basketball player

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Every October 13 on record

  1. 54 Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.

    Calendar year

    AD 54 (LIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus. The denomination AD 54 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 409 Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.

    East Germanic tribe

    The Vandals were a Germanic people who were first mentioned in the written records as the inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman Empire. Much later, in the 5th century, a group of Vandals led by kings established Vandal kingdoms, first within the Iberian Peninsula, and then in the western Mediterranean islands and North Africa.

  3. 1269 The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

    Church in London, England

    Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs. At least 16 royal weddings have taken place at the abbey since 1100.

  4. 1307 Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.

    Catholic military order, 1118 to 1312

    The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the most important military orders in Western Christianity. They were founded in 1118 to defend pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem, with their headquarters located there on the Temple Mount, and existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages.

  5. 1332 Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.

    Emperor of Yuan dynasty in 1332

    Rinchinbal, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Ningzong of Yuan, was a son of Kuśala who was briefly installed to the throne of the Yuan dynasty, but as a young boy he died within two months after being installed to the throne. Apart from Emperor of China, he is also considered the 14th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although it was only nominal due to the division of the empire.

  6. 1399 Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.
  7. 1644 A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
  8. 1710 Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
  9. 1775 The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
  10. 1792 In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
  11. 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
  12. 1812 War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.
  13. 1821 The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
  14. 1843 In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
  15. 1881 First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
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  1. 1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
  2. 1892 Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.
  3. 1903 The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
  4. 1908 Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
  5. 1911 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
  6. 1915 First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
  7. 1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  8. 1921 Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
  9. 1923 Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
  10. 1943 World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
  11. 1944 World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
  12. 1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
  13. 1962 The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.
  14. 1972 Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
  15. 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.

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