Aug 9, 2018
On This Day | 9 August
In 48 BCE, Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus, forcing Pompey to flee to Egypt.
In 117 CE, Roman Emperor Trajan died aged 63 from oedema.
In 378 CE, the Goth army defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Adrianople. Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium between 364 and 378 CE died in the conflict.