roman timeline

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    tiberius

    Tiberius in full Tiberius Caesar Augustus or Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus original name Tiberius Claudius Nero. The adopted son of Augustus whose imperial institutions and imperial boundaries he sought to preserve.
  • 37

    Caligula

    The third of Rome’s emperors Caligula formally known as Gaius achieved feats of waste and carnage during his four-year reign A.D. 37-41 unmatched even by his infamous nephew Nero. The son of a great military leader he escaped family intrigues to take the throne but his personal and fiscal excesses led him to be the first Roman emperor to be assassinated.
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    Claudius

    Claudius, in full Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus original name until 41 CE where it got changed to Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus. The son of Nero Claudius Drusus a popular and successful Roman general and the younger Antonia he was the nephew of the emperor Tiberius and a grandson of Livia Drusilla the wife of the emperor Augustus.
  • 50

    Nero

    Nero in full Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus also called (50–54 CE) Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus original name Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. They encouraged Nero to act independently of her, and a growing coolness resulted in Nero’s relations with his mother.
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    Galba

    Galba, Latin in full Servius Galba Caesar Augustus, original name Servius Sulpicius Galba. Galba was appointed governor of Nearer Spain in 60 and served in that post for eight years.
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    Otho

    Otho, in full Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus, original name Marcus Salvius Otho. He had hoped to be designated Galba’s successor, but when Galba disappointed him by adopting Lucius Piso Licinianus (January 69), Otho prepared to seize power.
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    Vitellius

    Aulus Vitellius, (born AD 15—died Dec. 20, 69, Rome), Roman emperor, the last of Nero’s three short-lived successors. His men proclaimed him emperor, and the armies of Upper Germany, as well as most of the governors of Spain, Gual, and Britain, soon gave him their support as well. He then led his troops into Italy.
  • 79

    Vespasian

    Vespasian, Latin in full Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, original name Titus Flavius Vespasianus. Vespasian was the son of Flavius Sabinus, a Roman knight who had been a tax collector.
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    Titus

    The victorious troops in Palestine urged Titus to take them with him to Italy; it was suspected that they acted on his prompting and that he was considering some sort of challenge to his father. Titus married twice, but his first wife died, and he divorced the second soon after the birth of his only child, a daughter, Flavia Julia, to whom he accorded the title Augusta. She married her cousin Flavius Sabinus, but after his death in 84 she lived openly as mistress of her uncle Domitian.