30 B. C. Conquest of Alexandria by Augustus; exactly three lustra or
fifteen years preceding the great victory of Drusus over the Rhœtians
and Vindelici, which concluded the Barbaric war.
30. St. JOHN (_the Baptist_) beheaded. The decollation of the Baptist
determines the birthday of Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, called Antipas,
who for his ambition was banished by Caligula to Spain or Lyons, with
Herodias, in the year 38.