Zenobia

• date of birth unknown: Julia Aurelia Zenobia 
• Autumn 267: clarissima regina
• 270: clarissima pia regina
• Spring 272: Septimia Zenobia Augusta
• Summer 272: taken captive
• died in captivity

Relatives:

• father: Julius Aurelius Zenobius
• married to: Odaenathus
• children: Vaballathus

Main deeds:

• 267 Assassination of Odaenathus; Vaballathus recognized as his father's successor (rex regum, corrector totius Orientis, dux Romanorum); Zenobia acts as regent
• 269 Palmyra breaks with Rome; attack on Ancyra
• 270 Conquest of Egypt; cult for Zenobia as "New Cleopatra" (?)
• 272, spring: In the Sasanian empire, Shapur I dies and is succeeded by Hormizd I; Vaballathus starts using full imperial titles and Zenobia calls herself Septimia Zenobia Augusta
• 272, summer: defeated and captured by Aurelian
• 273: in the Sassanid empire, Hormizd I is succeeded by Bahram I; Aurelian destroys Palmyra
• Zenobia died in captivity

Contemporary events:

• 268 Synod of Antioch declares Paul of Samosata a heretic

Links:

• biography from the Historia Augusta