Baiae

Region: Southern Europe · Coordinates: 40.817, 14.070 · 9 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
37 BCSuetonius, Lives of the CaesarsThe Sicilian war was prolonged because the fleet was damaged twice by storms, even in summer; he filled the oarsmen with a new fleet and twenty thousand freedmen, and made the Julian Port at Baiae.
AD 39Suetonius, Lives of the CaesarsHe built a bridge of boats and rode back and forth across it on horseback for two days (a new spectacle, described in chapter 19).
AD 59Tacitus, Annals and HistoriesAt Baiae, Nero celebrates the five-day Minerva festival and summons his mother
AD 59Tacitus, Annals and HistoriesUnder a starry sky at sea, the ship collapses strangely — a plan to harm Agrippina
AD 59Tacitus, Annals and HistoriesAgrippina is killed at the Villa of Baulus, and cremated that same night
AD 65Tacitus, Annals and HistoriesFearing discovery, they resolve to hurry the assassination at Piso's villa at Baiae
AD 118Historia AugustaCelsus, implicated in the conspiracy, is executed at Baiae
AD 138Aurelius Victor, De CaesaribusHadrian declines and dies at Baiae, and the Senate at first refuses to deify him.
AD 138Historia AugustaHadrian leaves affairs of state to Antoninus and departs for Baiae
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