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Tiberius Caesar Augustus (14-37)

TIBERIUS
Born: BC42/11/16 Tiberius Claudius Nero on the Palatine Hill
Father: Tiberius Claudius Nero, fought against Augustus in civil war in BC40
Mother: Livia Drusilla (later Julia Augusta).
Emperor: AD14/08/19 Tiberius Caesar Augustus.
Died: AD37/03/16 smothered by Macro in his bed at or near Micenum.
History:
  • BC25 military tribune in Cantabria
  • BC23 quaestor
  • BC20 won back standards of Crassus in Parthian campaign
  • BC16 governor of Gaul
  • BC16 married wife1: Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Agrippa
  • BC? son born: Tiberius Drusus Caesar
  • BC13 consul I
  • BC11 married wife2: Julia, daughter of Augustus
  • BC9 imperator I
  • BC8 imperator II
  • BC7 consul II
  • BC6/06/26 Tribunicia Potestas granted for 5 years
  • BC6 retires to Rhodes
  • BC2 Julia divorced, banished to Pandateria
  • AD2 Aug. allowed back to Rome as privatus
  • AD4/06/26 Tribunicia Potestas (renewed annually from this date)
  • AD4/06/27 adopted by Augustus, became Tiberius Iulius Caesar
  • AD4 adopts his brother Drusus' eldest son: Claudius Germanicus Caesar
  • AD6 imperator III
  • AD8 imperator IV
  • AD9 imperator V
  • AD11 imperator VI
  • AD12 granted supreme power by Augustus
  • AD13 imperator VII
  • AD14/08/19 accession, becomes Tiberius Caesar Augustus
  • AD14-16 Germanicus campaigns in Germany
  • AD15 Mar. 'Pontifex Maximus'
  • AD16 imperator VIII
  • AD16 Germanicus recalled from Rhine
  • AD17 Drusus governor of Pannonia
  • AD17/05/26 Germanicus celebrates triumph
  • AD18 consul III with Germanicus
  • AD18 Germanicus departs for eastern provinces
  • AD19/10/10 Germanicus dies in Antioch
  • AD20/05/27 Drusus celebrates triumph
  • AD21 consul IV with Drusus
  • AD23/09/14 Drusus dies, poisoned by wife Livilla and her lover Sejanus
  • AD26 leaves Rome for Campania
  • AD27 takes up residence on Capri
  • AD29 mother Livia dies, aged 86
  • AD29 Agrippina beaten and exiled to Pandateria
  • AD29 Nero son of Agrippina banished to Pontic island and forced to commit suicide
  • AD31 consul V with Sejanus
  • AD31 Drusus son of Agrippina starved to death in palace cellar
  • AD31/10/18 Sejanus executed for treason
  • AD33/10/18 Agrippina starves to death

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