Antoninus Pius

Names:

• 19 September 86: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius (Arrius?) Antoninus 
• 25 January 138: Imperator Titus Aelius Caesar Hadrianus Antoninus 
• 10 July 138: Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus
• 7 March 161: natural death

Relatives:

• father: Aurelius Fulvius
• mother: Arria Fadilla
• married to: Faustina I
• children: Marcus Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus, Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus, Aurelia Fadilla, Faustina II (married to Marcus Aurelius)

Early career:

• 86 Born in Lanuvium
• c.111 Quaestor
• c.117 Praetor
• 120 Consul
• 135/136 Proconsul in Asia

Main deeds:

• 138 Succeeds Hadrian; accepts the title Pius
• 139 Consul II (with Gaius Bruttius Praesens); victory over the Brigantes by Lollius Urbicus; apotheosis of Hadrian
• 140 Consul III (with Marcus Aurelius, caesar)
• 141 Death of Faustina I
• 144 Outbreak of war against the Moors
• 145 Consul IV (with with Marcus Aurelius II, caesar); dedication of Temple of Hadrian; Antoninus' daughter Faustina II marries Marcus Aurelius
• 148 Celebration of Rome's ninth centennial; Decennalia
• 152 End of the Moorish war
• 157 Operations in Dacia; accepts the titles Germanicus and Dacicus
• 158 Vicennalia
• 159 Reorganization of Dacia
• 160 Risings in Africa suppressed
• 161 Death

Succeeded by: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus

Contemporary events:

• c.140 Ptolemy of Alexandria's Almagest
• 144 Marcion of Sinope excommunicated
• 151 An earthquake destroys Mytilene and Smyrna
• 155 Execution of Polycarpus of Smyrna
• 156 Beginning of the career of Montanus
• 161 Gaius, Institutiones

Links

•  biography included in the Historia Augusta