New Zealand historian and scholar (died 1989)

Ronald Syme

Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar, offering critical views about Octavian in particular that challenged widely accepted views in contemporary academia.

Born

1903

March 11

Died

1989

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1900s

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1989 Died

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843 Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1387 Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.

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The world in 1903

When Ronald arrived

april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Anton Yelchin 1989–2016 American actor (born 1989) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) Benjamin Tupper 1738–1792 American general and surveyor (born 1738) Carl Ruggles 1876–1971 American composer and painter (died 1971) Gary Barnett 1963– English footballer and manager Henry Cowell 1897– American pianist and composer (died 1965) Margaret Oakley Dayhoff 1925–1983 American chemist and academic (born 1925) Peter Berg 1964– American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Qasem Soleimani 1957–2020 Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (born 1957)

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Also born in 1903

Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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