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Historical Passings on this Date December 3rd
311 – Diocletian, the Roman emperor who directed the Great Persecution from 303-312, Rome’s longest and bloodiest persecution of Christianity. Diocletion’s successors lifted his proscription, ruling that it had failed. Within 15 years after Diocletian’s death, Constantine made Christianity the preferred religion of the empire.
1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, the prolific and popular Scottish author who penned Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suffered from serious illness most of his life and died at age 44.
1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, famous French impressionist painter who painted portraits, scenes of daily life, and Reubenesque nudes. One of his paintings, Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) sold for $78.1 million May 17, 1990 at Sotheby’s New York.
311 – Diocletian, the Roman emperor who directed the Great Persecution from 303-312, Rome’s longest and bloodiest persecution of Christianity. Diocletion’s successors lifted his proscription, ruling that it had failed. Within 15 years after Diocletian’s death, Constantine made Christianity the preferred religion of the empire.
1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, the prolific and popular Scottish author who penned Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suffered from serious illness most of his life and died at age 44.
1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, famous French impressionist painter who painted portraits, scenes of daily life, and Reubenesque nudes. One of his paintings, Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) sold for $78.1 million May 17, 1990 at Sotheby’s New York.