On this day in AD 192, the Roman emperor Commodus was murdered.
December 31, 2015
The emperor was strangled in his bath by Narcissus, a wrestler who was tasked with the deed by a small group of conspirators.
On this day in 3BC the Roman emperor Galba was born
December 24, 2015
Galba was born into an ancient and noble family, the Sulpicii, at a country villa near the town of Tarracina (around 50 miles southeast of Rome).
On this day in AD 37, the Roman emperor Nero was born at Antium, in Italy
December 15, 2015
The emperor who supposedly fiddle while Rome burned…
On this day in AD 311, the Roman emperor, Diocletian, died at his palace in Split
December 3, 2015
We are told that it ended in insanity
On this day in 43 BC, the Lex Titia was passed at Rome
November 27, 2015
The passage of the Lex Titia legalized the collective rule of three statesmen over the Roman Republic and effectively signified its demise and the rise of autocracy: by the terms of the law Lepidus, Marc Antony, and Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) formed what is known today as the Second Triumvirate.
On this day in AD284 Diocletian became emperor
November 20, 2015
Before becoming emperor, Diocles (for this seems to have been his birth name) had been a successful leader in the military field.
On this day in AD308 Licinius became Augustus in the West
November 11, 2015
He also had the good fortune to be a childhood friend of the future emperor Galerius; this relationship would prove to be important in Licinius’ rise to power.
On this day in AD 30, the Roman emperor Nerva was born in Narnia.
November 8, 2015
That’s the the Italian town of Narnia, in Umbria, of course.
On this day in AD 12, Caligula was born
August 31, 2015
Text by Annabel Rock-Clarke Image © Mint Imperials Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born in Antium on the 31st August AD 12. He is more commonly known as Caligula. He was the son of the extremely popular general, Germanicus, a nephew of Augustus who was adopted by the emperor Tiberius but died young at age 34, …
On this day in AD14 Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, died aged 76 (Part II)
August 19, 2015
Text by Mike Welbourn Image © Mint Imperial In the first part we looked at Augustus’ rise to power. In this second part, we look at his time as emperor. Augustus thus came to enjoy an unassailable and unimpeachably legal pre-eminence. Beyond establishing a long period of peace and stability after decades of civil war, Augustus undertook …
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