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
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