History
On December 7, 43 BC, Rome's greatest orator was assassinated on Mark Antony's orders. His severed head and right hand were nailed to the Rostra in the Roman Forum — the very platform from which he had spent over a year denouncing Antony in his Philippic speeches.
Rome
In January 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered the corpse of Pope Formosus pulled from its grave, dressed in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to stand trial. He had been dead for seven months.
Rome
Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey, not the Senate House. The site is now Largo di Torre Argentina — buried for centuries, excavated in 1929, and open to visitors since 2023.