March 28

in History

Rome, Roman EmpireClassical

Caligula Accepts the Principate

A young emperor embraces his absolute power

The Roman Senate bestowed upon Emperor Caligula the full titles and powers of the Principate, formalizing his authority over the Roman world. The young emperor, grandson of the beloved Germanicus, was greeted with popular enthusiasm and high hopes. No one could yet foresee the cruelty and excess that would characterize his brief reign, making the joyful ceremony an ironic prelude to one of Rome's most turbulent imperial chapters.

37 AD

Flora Robson Was Born — A dame of British stage and screen

South Shields, EnglandEarly 20th Century

1902

Flora Robson Was Born

A dame of British stage and screen

Flora Robson was born in South Shields, England, a future actress whose commanding presence and versatility would earn her a place among the greatest performers in British theatrical history. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to drama. From Shakespearean stages to Hollywood films, Robson brought intelligence, power, and subtlety to every role she inhabited across a career spanning five decades.

1902 AD

1954–1968 U.S. social movementLate 20th Century

1963

Civil rights movement

Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conducted a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.

The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s.

1963 AD