Happy Birthday to Hadrian!

The great and mighty imperator, Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus, was born on 24 January in the year 76 A.D., or approximately 829 A.U.C. (Ab Urbe Condita). Actually, considering the Roman calendar marked the years using March as the first month, his birth might actually be rendered to 828 A.U.C. The was born in the 30th year of the effectiveness of the Julian calendar.

2006 is the 1930th anniversary of his august birth.

Happy birthday, Aurelius! And thank you to Julius Caesar and the rest of the Romans for giving the world such a remarkable calendar to follow to this very day.

Petrus Paulus ap Franciscus
Exploratio de Parisi