Claudius
Names:
- 1 August 10 BCE: Tiberius Claudius Nero
- 25 January 41: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
- 13 October 54: poisoned
Relatives:
- father: Drusus
- mother: Antonia Minor
- first wife: Plautia Urgulanilla
- son: Claudius Drusus (died as child)
- daughter: Claudia (not recognized)
- second wife: Aelia Paetina
- daughter: Antonia
- third wife: Messalina
- children: Octavia; Britannicus
- fourth wife: Agrippina Minor
Early career:
- 10 BCE: Born in Lyon
- 4 CE Surname Germanicus
- 14 Sodalis Augustalis
- c.19: Birth of Claudius Drusus
- 37 Consul
- 39 Member of a senatorial delegation to Caligula, in Germania; marries Messalina
- 40 Birth of Octavia
- 41 Assassination of Caligula
Main deeds:
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41 Accession; Chauci defeated by Gabinius; the kingdom of Herod
Agrippa expanded; exile of Seneca; birth of Britannicus
- 42 Consul II (with Gaius Caecina Largus); revolt of Marcus Furius Camillus Scribonianus suppressed; Mauretania organized; fall of Gaius Appius Iunius Silanus; fall of Julia Livilla
- 43 Consul III (with Lucius Vitellius II); expedition to Britain; refuses the title Britannicus; fall of Julia Drusila and Catonius Justus
- Return along Rhine and Upper Danube; Claudian army reforms (creation of the Rhine limes)
- 44 Return to Rome; triumph; death of Herod Agrippa; annexation of Mauretania and Judaea
- 46 Annexation of Thrace
- 47 Consul IV (with Lucius Vitellius III); censorship (with Lucius Vitellius); Ludi Saeculares; Corbulo attacks the Frisians; fall of Valerius Asiaticus, Mnester, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- 48 Execution of Messalina; Claudius marries Agrippina Minor
- 49 Recall of Seneca; he becomes teacher of Claudius' stepson Nero
- 51 Consul V (with Servius Cornelius Salvidienus Orfitus; later with Titus Flavius Vespasianus); Burrus made praetorian prefect
- 52 Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus inaugurated
- 53 Nero marries Claudius' daughter Octavia; the Parthian Empire recovers Armenia and Tiridates becomes king
- 54 Poisoned
Succeeded by: Nero
Contemporary events:
- 43 Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis
- 46 Birth of Plutarch of Chaeronea
- 48 Apostolic Council in Jerusalem
- 50 Dioscorides, De Materia Medica; death of Celsus; death of Gamaliel
- 51 Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians
- 52 Paul meets Gallio
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