Tiberius

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	Tiberius
Tiberius (British Museum)	Tiberius: second emperor of the Roman world (14-37). Names: 16 November 42 BCE: Tiberius Claudius Nero 19 August 14 CE: Imperator Tiberius Caesar Augustus 16 March 37: natural death Successor of: Augustus Relatives: father: Tiberius Claudius Nero mother: Livia married to: Vipsania Agrippina; Julia son: Drusus the Younger Early career: 42 Born in Rome 40 To Sicily with his parents 39 Return 38 Livia marries Octavian 33 Death of his father; funeral oration; engaged to Agrippina Maior 26-25 Military tribune in Spain 23 Quaestor 20 In the east; negotiations with the Parthian king 16 Praetor; marries Agrippina Maior; proceeds to Gaul (succeeded as praetor by Drusus) 16-15 Governor in Gaul 15 Rhaetian War 13 Consul 12 Divorce 12-9 War in Pannonia 11 Marries Julia 9 End of Pannonian war; ovatio 9 Death of Drusus 8 War in Germania 7, 1 January: Germanic triumph; consul II 6 Tribunicia potestas; to Rhodes 2 BCE Divorce from Julia 2 CE Return to Rome 4, 26 June: Adopted by Augustus 4-6 Germanic campaigns 6-9 Pannonian rebellion 10 Inauguration of the temple of Concordia 10-12 Germanic war 12 Pannonian triumph Main deeds: 14 Accession; assassination of Agrippa Postumus; Sejanus appointed as praetorian prefect; mutinies; Drusus the Younger in pannonia; Germanicus in Germania Inferior 15 Germanicus again in Germania 16 Battle of Idistaviso; death of Libo Drusus 17 Triumph of Germanicus; he goes to the east; Cappadocia reorganized; rising of Tacfarinas 18 Consul III (with Germanicus) 19 Jews exiled from Rome; death of Arminius; death of Germanicus 20 Trial and suicide of Piso 21 Consul IV (with Drusus the Younger); rising of Florus and Sacrovir (Arch of Orange) 22 Construction of the Castra Praetoria 23 Death of Drusus 25 Suicide of Cremutius Cordus 26 During a dinner party at Sperlonga, Sejanus saves the life of Tiberius; Pontius Pilate becomes governor of Judaea 27 Tiberius retires to Capri; collapse of theater in Fidenae 28 Execution of Titius Sabinus (maiestas); Frisian revolt 29 Death of Livia; exile of Agrippina the Elder and her son Nero 31 Consul V (with Sejanus); fall of Sejanus; Macro made praetorian prefect 36 Pilate dismissed by Vitellius; Vitellius defeats the Parthian king Artabanus II in support of Tiridates II, who is recognized as king 37 Death Buildings in Rome: Temple of Augustus (unfinished); Castra Praetoria Buildings outside Rome: Arch of Tiberius in Lepcis Magna Contemporary events: 16 Ovid's Letters from Pontus 17 An earthquake destroys Sardes; death of Gaius Julius Hyginus and Titus Livy 18 death of Ovid; Caiaphas becomes high priest 20 Tiberias founded by Herod Antipas; death of Hillel 21 Death of Sulpicius Quirinius 23 Strabo's Geography 25 Death of Aulus Cremutius Cordus 30 Velleius Paterculus publishes his Roman History; death of Jesus of Nazareth (?); death of Shammai 37 Death of Maroboduus Succeeded by: Caligula Links: biography by Suetonius Julia Pontius Pilate Tacfarinas Vitellius
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