Titus

Names:

• 30 December 39: Titus Flavius Vespasianus 
• July 69: Titus Caesar Vespasianus 
• 2 September 70: Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus 
• 24 June 79: Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus
• 13 September 81: natural death

Relatives:

• father: Vespasian
• mother: Flavia Domitilla
• married to: Arrecina Tertulla, Marcia Furnilla (affair with Berenice)
• children: Julia

Early career:

• 39 Born in Rome
• 60 Military tribune in Germania and Britain
• 65 Quaestor
• 66 Commander of XV Apollinaris

Main deeds:

• 70 Consul I (with his father Vespasian); Titus takes Jerusalem
• 71 Consul II (with Vespasian); triumph of Vespasian and Titus; Gate of Janus closed; Titus praetorian prefect
• 73 Censorship
• 74 Consul III (with Vespasian)
• 75 Consul IV (with Vespasian); Berenice in Rome; she is later dismissed
• 76 Consul V (with Vespasian)
• 77 Consul VI (with Vespasian); Pliny the Elder dedicates the Natural history to Titus
• 79 Consul VII (with Vespasian); succeeds his father
• Berenice is briefly in Rome
  
• 80 Consul VIII (with his brother Domitian); fire in Rome; inauguration of the Colosseum and the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
• 81 Death; succeeded by Domitian

Contemporary events:

• 79 Eruption of the Vesuvius, destruction of Pompeii, death of Pliny the Elder

Links:

• biography by Suetonius
• Jewish revolt
• Julius Alexander
• Pliny the Elder