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May 31

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  1. 17 BCEGraeco-Roman

    The Ludi Saeculares of Augustus opened with nocturnal sacrifices to the Fates on the bank of the Tiber, the festival for which Horace composed the Carmen Saeculare.

  2. 1891 CEBuddhist · founded

    The Maha Bodhi Society, founded by the Sri Lankan revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala to restore Buddhist sites in India, was established at Colombo in 1891.

  3. 1893 CEHindu

    Swami Vivekananda set sail from Bombay aboard the steamer Peninsular, beginning the voyage that took him to the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions.

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