Galba

Names:

• 24 December 3 BCE: Servius Sulpicius Galba 
• 8 June 68: Servius Galba Imperator Caesar Augustus
• 15 June 69: lynched by soldiers

Relatives:

• father: Gaius Sulpicius Galba
• mother: Mummia Achaica
• married to: Aemilia Lepida
• children: Two sons

Early career:

• 3 BCE: Born in a villa near Tarracina
• c.30 Praetor
• 31-32 Propraetor of Aquitania
• 33 Consul
• 39-42 Propraetor of Germania Superior
• 43/44 With Claudius in Britain
• 44-46 Proconsul of Africa
• 46 Ornamenta triumphalia
• 60 Propraetor of Spain

Main deeds:

• Spring 68: Revolts of Lucius Clodius Macer (in Numidia) and Julius Vindex (in Gaul); 
• April 68: revolt of Galba in Hispania Tarraconensis
• Vindex' revolt suppressed by Verginius Rufus
• Praetorian prefect Nymphidius sides with Galba; Nero commits suicide; Nymphidius killed; Tigellinus replaced by Cornelius Laco
• Autumn: Galba in Rome; becomes pontifex maximus; Verginius Rufus replaced by Hordeonius Flaccus
• January 69: Consul II (with Titus Vinius); revolt of Vitellius; Galba adopts Piso; lynched by soldiers near the Lacus Curtius
• Damnatio memoriae

Succeeded by: Vitellius, Otho
 

Links:

• biography by Suetonius
• Hordeonius Flaccus
• Jewish revolt
• Julius Vindex
• Ofonius Tigellinus
• Verginius Rufus
• Vitellius