Nero
Names:
- 15 December 37: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
- 25 February 50: Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
- 13 October 54: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
- September (?) 66: Imperator Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
- 9 June 68: suicide
Relatives:
- father: Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
- mother: Agrippina Minor
- married to: Octavia (daughter of Claudius); Poppaea Sabina; Statilia Messalina
- Child: Claudia (died as a baby)
Early career:
- 37 Born in Antium
- 39-41 Exile of his mother
- 49 Engagement to Octavia
- 50 Adopted by Claudius
- 51 Proconsular powers
- 52 Prefect of the Latin Games
- 53 Marriage to Octavia
Main deeds:
- 54 Succeeds Claudius; Claudius deified
- 55 Consul I (with Lucius Antistius Vetus); Britannicus poisoned; pontifex maximus
- 56 Reorganization of the aerarium
- 57 Consul II (with Lucius Calpurnius Piso)
- 58 Consul III (with Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus); Tiridates attacked by Corbulo; Corbulo takes Artaxata
- 59 Assassination of Agrippina the Younger; fall of Tigranocerta
- 60 Consul IV (with Cossus Cornelius Lentulus); the Neroniana celebrated; Tigranes made king of Armenia; Corbulo made governor of Syria
- 61 Revolt of Boudicca; tensions with the Parthian Empire
- 62 Death of Burrus, the praetorian prefect; he is succeeded by Faenius Rufus and Tigellinus; fall of Seneca; Nero divorces Octavia and marries Poppaea (who divorces Marcus Salvius Otho); Roman defeat at Rhandeia
- 63 Earthquake in Campania
- 64 Fire in Rome; execution of Christians (text); exploratory mission to Ethiopia
- 65 The Neroniana celebrated again; conspiracy of Piso; suicides of Lucan and Seneca; Faenius Rufus replaced by Nymphidius as praetorian prefect; death of Poppaea
- 66 Marriage to Statilia Messalina; Tiridates in Rome; Gate of Janus closed; Jewish revolt; Nero crosses to Greece; conspiracy of Vinicius; suicide of Petronius Arbiter
- 67 Nero in Greece; starts the work on a canal at Corinth; suicide of Corbulo; Vespasian sent to Judaea
- 68 Consul V (without colleague); return to Rome; revolt of Julius Vindex suppressed by Verginius Rufus; recolt of Lucius Clodius Macer; revolt of Galba; suicide
- Damnatio memoriae
Senate and People of Rome.
Buildings: Temple of Claudius; Horrea Galbana (dedicated by Galba); Baths of Nero; Domus Transitoria; Golden House (Domus Aurea); Colossus; Bridge of Nero
Contemporary events:
- 54 Seneca's Apocolocyntosis
- 55 Seneca's De clementia
- 56 Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
- 57 Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, Epistle to the Galatians, Second Epistle to the Corinthians
- 58 Paul's Epistle to the Romans; Paul captured
- 59 Paul pleads his case before Agrippa
- 60 Paul meets Festus; death of Domitius Afer and Geminus of Rhodes (?)
- 61 Paul in Rome
- 62 Death of Persius and James the Just
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