Domitian

Names:

• 24 October 51: Titus Flavius Domitianus 
• 14 September 81: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus
• 83: Imperator Caesar Domitianus Germanicus Augustus
• 18 September 96: murdered by courtiers

Relatives:

• father: Vespasian
• mother: Flavia Domitilla
• married to: Domitia Longina, daughter of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
• children: Titus Flavius (?)

Early career:

• 51 Born in Rome
• 69 Recognized as caesar
• 70 Marriage to Domitia Longina
• 71 Consul suffectus
• 73 Consul II; birth of a son
• 75 Consul suffectus III
• 76 Consul suffectus IV
• 77 Consul suffectus V
• 79 Consul suffectus VI; death of Vespasian, accession of Titus
• 80 Consul VII (with Titus)

Main deeds:

• 81 Accession after the unexpected death of Titus
• 82 Consul VIII (with Titus Flavius Sabinus); dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; revaluation of the denarius
• 83 Consul IX (with Quintus Petilius Rufus II); war against the Chatti; exile and recall of Domitia Longina; death of Titus Flavius Sabinus
• 84 Consul X (with Gaius Oppius Sabinus)
• 85 Consul XI; recall of Agricola from Britain; censor perpetuus; the Dacian king Decebalus defeats a Roman army; Domitian to Moesia; debasement of the denarius
• 86 Consul XII (with Servius Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus); war against the Dacians
• 87 Consul XIII (with Lucius Volusius Saturninus); Decebalus king of Dacia
• 88 Consul XIV (with Lucius Minucius Rufus); Ludi Saeculares; Roman victory over Dacians at Tapae
• 89 Revolt of Lucius Antonius Saturninus at Mainz, repressed by the army of Germania Inferior; renewed war against the Dacians
• 90 Consul XV (with Marcus Cocceius Nerva II)
• 92 Consul XVI (with Quintus Volusius Saturninus); palaces on the Palatine completed; Domitian in Pannonia
• 93 Domitian defeats the Sarmatians; expells the philosophers from Rome (including, perhaps, Nerva); trial of Baebius Massa
• 95 Consul XVII (with Titus Flavius Clemens); execution of Titus Flavius Clemens
• 96 Assassinated
• Damnatio memoriae

Buildings in Rome: Imperial palaces on the Palatine; Arch of Titus; Temple of Vespasian; Forum Transitorium; Stadion of Domitian; Odeon of Domitian; Temple of the Flavians; Ludus Maximus

Other monuments: Mainz pedestals

Succeeded by: Nerva

Contemporary events:

• 95 Death of Quintilian
• 96 Death of Statius

Links:

• biography by Suetonius
• Casperius Aelianus