14 events with tag "suicide"
102 BC
ID: 5930
Cimbri women fight from wagon fort - after men defeated, women kill children and themselves rather than slavery, fight with same ferocity as men
ID: 5930
46 BC
ID: 2704
Battle of Thapsus - Caesar defeats republicans in Africa, Cato commits suicide at Utica rather than live under Caesar
ID: 2704
42 BC
ID: 2711
Battle of Philippi - Octavian and Antony defeat Brutus and Cassius, both commit suicide, Republic effectively dead
ID: 2711
30 BC
ID: 2715
August 30 BC
Death of Antony and Cleopatra - Antony falls on sword, Cleopatra uses asp, Octavian annexes Egypt, Ptolemaic dynasty ends
ID: 2715
61
ID: 2525
Battle of Watling Street - Suetonius Paulinus defeats Boudica's 230,000 with 10,000 Romans, 80,000 Britons killed, Boudica takes poison
ID: 2525
68
ID: 3996
Nero commits suicide - 'What an artist dies in me!', Senate declares him public enemy
ID: 3996
69
ID: 3999
Otho emperor for 3 months - commits suicide after defeat by Vitellius to prevent civil war
ID: 3999
73
ID: 4127
Fall of Masada - last Jewish stronghold falls, 960 defenders commit mass suicide rather than surrender to Romans
ID: 4127
73
ID: 4821
Fall of Masada - last Jewish stronghold falls to Romans, mass suicide of defenders
ID: 4821
1200
ID: 5301
Cathar perfecti practice endura - ritual fasting unto death after receiving consolamentum, seen as liberation from evil material world
ID: 5301
1898
ID: 1140
March 31, 1898
Eleanor Marx (Karl's daughter) commits suicide by poison after husband's betrayal
ID: 1140
1911
ID: 1203
November 25, 1911
Laura Marx and husband Paul Lafargue commit joint suicide by cyanide injection
ID: 1203
1940
ID: 1494
September 1940
Walter Benjamin commits suicide in Catalonia, Spain after fleeing Nazis
ID: 1494
2008
ID: 3157
Bruce Ivins died by suicide from acetaminophen overdose at age 62
ID: 3157