Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars: a Standard history source. Covers 84 BC – AD 96, with 173 events in chronological order. Text license and provenance included.
| Type | Standard history |
|---|---|
| Viewpoint | Insider account |
| Years covered | 84 BC – AD 96 |
| Events | 173 events, 165 placed on the map |
| Author | Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus |
| Original title | De vita Caesarum |
Regions: Southern Europe 134 · Western Europe 24 · Egypt & North Africa 7 · West Asia 7
| Year | Place | Event | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 BC | Roma | At sixteen he lost his father and married Cornelia, daughter of Cinna. | Julius 1 |
| 81 BC | Nicomedia | His first campaign was in Asia; he went to Bithynia to fetch a fleet and stayed long at King Nicomedes' court, which left a scandal. | Julius 2 |
| 78 BC | Roma | After a brief service in Cilicia, on news of Sulla's death he hurried back to Rome, hoping for unrest under Lepidus. | Julius 3 |
| 75 BC | Rhodos (settlement) | On reaching Rhodes, after Mithridates ravaged the neighborhood, he crossed to Asia, gathered auxiliaries and drove the enemy out. | Julius 4 |
| 68 BC | Gadeira | Touring the provinces as quaestor, at the temple of Hercules at Gades he saw a statue of Alexander the Great and sighed deeply. | Julius 7 |
| 66 BC | Roma | A few days before taking up the aedileship he was accused of complicity in a plot with Crassus, Sulla and Autronius to attack the Senate. | Julius 9 |
| 65 BC | Roma | As aedile he decorated the Forum with its adjoining colonnades, and extended temporary colonnades up to the Capitol. | Julius 10 |
| 63 BC | Roma | Giving up hope of gaining the province of Egypt, he stood for chief pontiff with enormous bribes. | Julius 13 |
| 63 BC | Roma | When the Catilinarian conspiracy was discovered, he reminded the advocates of severe punishment of the blame of posterity, and had consul-elect Silanus soften his proposal. | Julius 14 |
| 63 BC | Roma | Born in the year when Cicero and Antony were consuls, on 23 September, just before sunrise, in the Palatine district. | Augustus 5 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 5장) |
| 60 BC | Roma | After the praetorship he was assigned Hispania Ulterior and pacified it; without waiting for a successor, he hurried home to seek a triumph and the consulship. | Julius 18 |
| 60 BC | Macedonia | His father, after the praetorship, was assigned the province of Macedonia and defeated the Bessi and the Thracians in a great battle. | Augustus 3 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 3장) |
| 59 BC | Roma | Elected consul together with Bibulus. | Julius 19 |
| 59 BC | Roma | Relying on his father-in-law and son-in-law, he chose Gaul, where there were many chances for triumph, and the Senate added Gallia Comata to his charge. | Julius 22 |
| 55 BC – 54 BC | Rhenus (river) | As governor of Gaul for nine years, he was the first Roman to build a bridge over the Rhine, and defeated the Germanic tribes across the river many times. | Julius 25 |
| 55 BC – 54 BC | Britannia | Expedition to Britain: the fleet was nearly wrecked by a storm. | Julius 25 |
| 52 BC | Gergovia? | Nearly suffered defeat at Gergovia in Gaul (one of the crises listed in chapter 25). | Julius 25 |
| 52 BC | Roma | After Clodius's murder unsettled the Republic, the Senate voted for Pompey as sole consul. | Julius 26 |
| 50 BC – 49 BC | Ravenna | When the Senate refused to intervene, he went down to Cisalpine Gaul, held assize courts, and halted at Ravenna. | Julius 30 |
| 49 BC | Rubico (river) | On news that the tribunes had been driven out, he sent his army ahead and set off secretly, halting at the Rubicon, the border of his province. | Julius 31 |
| 49 BC | Rubico (river) | As soldiers gathered, he seized a trumpet, ran to the river and, sounding the advance, crossed it: the civil war begins. | Julius 32 |
| 49 BC | Corfinium | After forcing Domitius, who held Corfinium as a garrison, to surrender, he released him. | Julius 34 |
| 49 BC | Brundisium | He advanced along the coast to Brundisium, where the consuls and Pompey had fled. | Julius 34 |
| 49 BC | Placentia | While Pompey was still under arms, he dishonorably discharged the Ninth Legion at Placentia. | Julius 69 |
| 48 BC | Dyrr(h)achium | Of the two battles whose outcome was uncertain during the civil war, one was the fighting at Dyrrhachium. | Julius 36 |
| 48 BC | Macedonia | Returning from Rome and crossing into Macedonia, he blockaded Pompey for almost four months with a huge rampart. | Julius 35 |
| 48 BC | Pharsalus | He defeated Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. | Julius 35 |
| 48 BC – 47 BC | Alexandria | Pursuing the fleeing Pompey as far as Alexandria, he learned of his murder and became entangled in a dangerous war with King Ptolemy, at an unfavorable time and place. | Julius 35 |
| 48 BC – 47 BC | Alexandria | He feasted with Cleopatra until dawn and tried to sail up Egypt by yacht as far as Ethiopia, but the army did not follow. | Julius 52 |
| 48 BC | Hellespont (strait) | After Pharsalus he sent the army ahead to Asia and crossed the Hellespont in a small ferry, where on the opposite shore he met ten warships of Cassius. | Julius 63 |
| 47 BC | Alexandria | During an attack on the Alexandria bridge, an enemy ambush drove him onto a ship; he escaped by jumping into the sea and swimming. | Julius 64 |
| 46 BC | Roma | Through victories in several wars he celebrated five triumphs: after defeating Scipio, four in one month; the first and most splendid was the Gallic triumph. | Julius 37 |
| 46 BC | Roma | He corrected the calendar, which had long been in disorder. | Julius 40 |
| 44 BC | Roma | At the Lupercalia, consul Antony repeatedly placed a crown on him from the rostra; each time he refused it and sent it to Jupiter on the Capitol. | Julius 79 |
| 44 BC | Roma | When he sat down, the conspirators came around him as if to greet him and killed him; they had planned to drag his corpse and throw it into the Tiber. | Julius 82 |
| 44 BC | Roma | He announced the date of the funeral and held it in the Field of Mars, piling the pyre near the tomb of his daughter Julia. | Julius 84 |
| 44 BC | Roma | Right after the funeral the crowd ran with torches to the houses of Brutus and Cassius, and mistaking Cinna for the other man, killed Helvius Cinna. | Julius 85 |
| 44 BC | Roma | He died at fifty-six and was counted among the gods; the senate house where he was killed was closed, and the Ides of March were designated as the day of parricide. | Julius 88 |
| 44 BC | Roma | After Caesar's death, on his return from Apollonia when he entered Rome, a circular band appeared around the sun in the clear sky, like a rainbow. Fiction | Augustus 93 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 8장) |
| 43 BC | Mutina | In the Modena war the consul Hirtius fell in battle, and when the consul Pansa soon died of his wounds, rumor spread that it was his doing. | Augustus 11 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 10장) |
| 43 BC | Roma | Before reaching the legal age, he stationed legions near Rome, demanded the consulship and sent envoys. | Augustus 26 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 3장) |
| 42 BC | Krenides | Allied with Antony and Lepidus, he ended the Philippi war in two battles; in the first he was driven from camp and barely escaped to the wing under Antony's command. | Augustus 13 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 8장) |
| 42 BC | Roma | Born in the Palatine district (the view of most authorities); the claim of a birth at Ponti is said to be weakly grounded. | Tiberius 5 |
| 41 BC – 40 BC | Perusia | He drove Lucius Antonius, who had stirred up new unrest, back into Perusia and forced him to surrender by famine. | Augustus 14 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 9장) |
| 41 BC – 40 BC | Sparta | He was sent by way of Sicily and Achaea to the Lacedaemonians under the protection of the Claudian house, and a fire that spread at night endangered his life. | Tiberius 6 |
| 37 BC | Baiae | The 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. | Augustus 16 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 16장) |
| 35 BC – 9 BC | Dalmatia | He and his lieutenants conquered Cantabria, Aquitania, Pannonia, Dalmatia and all of Illyricum, and Raetia. | Augustus 21 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 미발견장) |
| 31 BC | Actium | His alliance with Antony finally broke, and he defeated him in the sea battle off Actium; the naval battle went on until late in the day. | Augustus 17 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 9장) |
| 30 BC | Alexandria | He took out the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great and looked at them, saying 'I wanted to see the king, not the dead'; he made Egypt a province and mobilized the army to maintain the canals. | Augustus 18 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 17장) |
| 29 BC | Roma | He closed the temple of Janus Quirinus three times to establish peace, and celebrated a triumph for victories at Dalmatia, Actium and Alexandria. | Augustus 22 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 6장) |
| 28 BC – 2 BC | Roma | He rebuilt the city and erected many buildings: the Forum with the temple of Mars the Avenger, the temple of Apollo on the Palatine, the temple of Jupiter Tonans on the Capitol, and others. | Augustus 29 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 1장) |
| 27 BC – AD 14 | Misenum | He stationed legions by province and placed fleets at Misenum and Ravenna to guard the upper and lower seas. | Augustus 49 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 49장) |
| 26 BC – 25 BC | Cantabria | Of the two foreign wars he fought in person, he was wounded in the Cantabrian war. | Augustus 20 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 20장) |
| 25 BC | Cantabria | His first campaign as military tribune was fought in the Cantabrian War. | Tiberius 9 |
| 20 BC | Armenia | He led his army to the East and restored the kingdom of Armenia to Tigranes. | Tiberius 9 |
| 12 BC | Roma | He took the chief pontificate, which he had been unable to seize while Lepidus lived, as soon as Lepidus died. | Augustus 31 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 31장) |
| 10 BC | Lugdunum | Born at Lugdunum, on the very day the altar of Augustus was first dedicated there. | Claudius 2 |
| 6 BC | Ostia | Setting out from Ostia and following the Campanian coast, he paused on news of Augustus's illness. | Tiberius 11 |
| 6 BC – AD 2 | Rhodos (settlement) | Against his will he stayed on Rhodes; through his mother he barely obtained only the title of Augustus's deputy, and, under suspicion as a private individual, he lived in seclusion inland on the island. | Tiberius 12 |
| 3 BC | Tarracina(e) | Born in the consulship of Messalla and Lentulus. | Galba 4 |
| 2 BC | Roma | The people all at once, with one voice, offered him the title 'Father of the Country', and the Senate formally conveyed it through Messalla. | Augustus 58 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 2장) |
| 2 BC | Roma | Because the dissolute conduct of his daughter and granddaughter, both named Julia, grew severe, he exiled both. | Augustus 63 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 16장) |
| AD 2 | Roma | After nearly eight years on Rhodes he returned to Rome. | Tiberius 14 |
| AD 6 – 9 | Illyricum | On hearing of the Illyrian revolt he crossed over and took command of the new war. | Tiberius 16 |
| AD 9 | Germania | In Germany, under his lieutenants Lollius and Varus, he suffered two defeats; in Varus's case three legions were wiped out with their commanders, lieutenants and auxiliaries. | Augustus 23 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 19장) |
| AD 9 | Germania | Varus was destroyed with three legions in Germany; it is assessed that because the Illyrian war had ended first, the joining of Pannonians and Germans was prevented. | Tiberius 17 |
| AD 9 | Reate | Born between Reate and Palacrinae in the Sabine country (the date given is 27 November; the common tradition says 17 November). | Vespasian 2 |
| AD 11 – 12 | Germania | The following year he went again to Germany; deeming the cause of Varus's defeat to be the rashness of the commander, he handled all matters on the advice of his staff. | Tiberius 18 |
| AD 12 | Roma | Returning from Germany two years later, he celebrated the postponed triumph with his lieutenants, and sent the Pannonian chieftain Bato to Ravenna. | Tiberius 20 |
| AD 12 | Antium | Born in the consulship of Germanicus and Pontius Capito; the birthplace is uncertain, as several places claim it. | Caligula 8 |
| AD 13 | Roma | Four months short of a year before his death, on 3 April, in the consulship of Lucius Plancus and Gaius Silius, he drew up his will. | Augustus 99 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 7장) |
| AD 14 | Beneventum | He sent Tiberius to Illyricum and meant to accompany him as far as Beneventum, but was detained by a request about a lawsuit. | Augustus 95 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 97장) |
| AD 14 | Nola | He died in the same room in which his father Octavius had died; the Senate discussed a solemn funeral procedure. | Augustus 98 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 38장) |
| AD 14 | Roma | Using tribunician power he convened the Senate and began a mournful speech, but sighed deeply and pretended he could not go on speaking. | Tiberius 23 |
| AD 14 – 16 | Germania | Germanicus restored order among the garrisons in Germany, quelled the mutiny, and defeated the enemy. | Caligula 1 |
| AD 14 – 15 | Germania | Raised in the camps dressed as a soldier, he earned the nickname Caligula; after Augustus's death, in the mutiny, merely seeing him calmed the soldiers' anger. | Caligula 9 |
| AD 18 | Syria | He accompanied his father on the Syrian campaign. | Caligula 10 |
| AD 19 | Roma | He prohibited foreign religions and Egyptian and Jewish rites, had garments and sacred vessels burned, and sent young Jews to provinces of endemic disease. | Tiberius 36 |
| AD 19 | Antiochia | The widespread view is that he was removed by Tiberius's stratagem and Piso's hand; Piso was sentenced to death at Rome. | Caligula 2 |
| AD 26 | Tarracina(e) | After losing his two sons (Germanicus in Syria, Drusus at Rome), he withdrew to Campania; during a dinner at the grotto villa near Terracina a large rock fell, killing several guests and attendants. | Tiberius 39 |
| AD 26 – 27 | Capreae | After touring Campania he dedicated the Capitolium at Capua and the temple of Augustus at Nola, and retired to Capri. | Tiberius 40 |
| AD 27 | Fidenae | After more than 20,000 people died in the collapse of the amphitheatre at Fidenae, the Roman people strongly demanded Tiberius's return. | Tiberius 40 |
| AD 29 | Pandataria (island) | He exiled his daughter-in-law Agrippina to the island of Pandateria. | Tiberius 53 |
| AD 31 | Roma | Though he knew of Sejanus's plot, he made him his colleague in his fifth consulship, in order to remove him from his side. | Tiberius 65 |
| AD 32 | Born on 28 April, in the consulship of Camillus Arruntius and Domitius Ahenobarbus. | Otho 2 | |
| AD 35 | Cyrene | As quaestor he was assigned Crete and Cyrene by lot. | Vespasian 2 |
| AD 37 | Misenum | Delayed by a storm and illness, he died at seventy-eight, in the twenty-third year of his reign, at a villa once owned by Lucullus. | Tiberius 73 |
| AD 37 | Capreae | A few days before his death, the Pharos lighthouse at Capri collapsed in an earthquake, and at Misenum an extinguished charcoal fire flared up again. | Tiberius 74 |
| AD 37 | Roma | On news of his death, people ran through the streets shouting 'Tiberius to the Tiber!' | Tiberius 75 |
| AD 37 | Roma | On entering Rome, the Senate and people cheered together and burst into the Senate house to annul Tiberius's will, which had named another grandson as co-heir. | Caligula 14 |
| AD 37 | Pandataria (island) | After a grand funeral for Tiberius, he crossed to Pandateria and Pontia and brought back the ashes of his mother and his brother. | Caligula 15 |
| AD 37 | Antium | Born at Antium in the ninth month after Tiberius's death, at sunrise, at the moment the sun's rays reached him. | Nero 6 |
| AD 39 | Baiae | He built a bridge of boats and rode back and forth across it on horseback for two days (a new spectacle, described in chapter 19). | Caligula 19 |
| AD 39 | Mevania | On the Mevanian road, on the way to see the river Clitumnus and its grove, he suddenly summoned the legions, conscripted them harshly, and marched north. | Caligula 43 |
| AD 39 – 40 | Rhenus (river) | He staged a mock war: he hid some German bodyguards across the Rhine and had them report, after dinner, that the enemy had appeared. | Caligula 45 |
| AD 39 – 41 | Roma | Born on 30 December, three days before the Kalends of January. | Titus 1 |
| AD 40 | Lugdunum | He staged performances in Sicily, Greek games at Syracuse, and theatrical and oratorical contests at Lugdunum in Gaul. | Caligula 20 |
| AD 40 | He lined up the army on the shore of the Ocean with catapults set up, making it look as if a real war was being fought. | Caligula 46 | |
| AD 40 | Roma | On the return journey, when Senate envoys urged him to hurry back, he gave up or postponed the triumph and entered with an ovation on his birthday; within four months he was killed. | Caligula 49 |
| AD 41 | Roma | Just after noon, while talking with boys, Chaerea struck him from behind with a sword, and the tribune Cornelius Sabinus and others stabbed him in the chest and killed him. | Caligula 58 |
| AD 41 | Roma | With conspirators barring his approach, he withdrew into a room called the Hermaeum and, at fifty, unexpectedly came to the throne. | Claudius 10 |
| AD 42 | Dalmatia | Plots by individuals and factions continued, until a civil war finally shook his regime. | Claudius 13 |
| AD 42 – 54 | Ostia | He built a harbour at Ostia and erected a tall tower on piles, modeled on the Pharos of Alexandria, lit at night. | Claudius 20 |
| AD 43 | Massalia | He traveled by land from Massilia to Gesoriacum. | Claudius 17 |
| AD 43 | Gesoriacum | From Gesoriacum he crossed over to Britain. | Claudius 17 |
| AD 43 | Britannia | After crossing to Britain, part of the island surrendered (summary of chapter 17). | Claudius 17 |
| AD 43 – 47 | Britannia | Under Claudius he commanded a legion in Germany, moved to Britain, fought thirty battles under Plautius and Claudius, and received triumphal decorations. | Vespasian 4 |
| AD 45 – 46 | Africa (region) | As proconsul he governed Africa for two years, restoring order to a province disturbed by internal strife and unrest among foreign peoples. | Galba 7 |
| AD 48 | Roma | Right after Messalina's death, he sat at the table and asked, 'Why does the empress not come?' | Claudius 39 |
| AD 50 | Roma | Adopted at eleven by Claudius, he was educated by Seneca, who had become a senator. | Nero 7 |
| AD 51 | Roma | During a period of several years of bad harvests and grain shortage, he was reviled by the crowd in the middle of the Forum and pelted with pieces of bread. | Claudius 19 |
| AD 51 | Roma | Born in the sixth district of Rome on 24 October; his father was consul-elect. | Domitian 1 |
| AD 52 | Judaea | He appointed the freedman Felix governor of the province of Judea. | Claudius 28 |
| AD 54 | Roma | He died at sixty-four, in the fourteenth year of his reign; his death was concealed until the succession was settled. | Claudius 45 |
| AD 54 | Roma | When Claudius's death was announced, he went out to the Praetorian cohort, was acclaimed emperor by the soldiers on the palace steps, and was carried in a litter to the camp. | Nero 8 |
| AD 54 | Roma | He gave Claudius a grand funeral, read the eulogy himself, and had him deified. | Nero 9 |
| AD 57 – 61 | Germania | As military tribune he served in Germany and Britain and received many statues and honorary inscriptions. | Titus 4 |
| AD 58 – 68 | Lusitania | As quaestor, for ten years he governed provinces with moderation and justice. | Otho 3 |
| AD 60 | Col. Tarraco | While staying at Fundi, he was assigned the province of Hispania Tarraconensis and went to take up his post. | Galba 8 |
| AD 61 | Britannia | A great disaster in Britain: two major cities of the Romans were seized. | Nero 39 |
| AD 64 | Pontus | He had no ambition to expand territory; when Polemo handed over the kingdom of Pontus, he made it a province, and after Cotius's death he made the Alps a province as well. | Nero 18 |
| AD 64 | Parthenope | Even when the theatre shook from an earthquake, he did not stop until he had finished one song. | Nero 20 |
| AD 64 | Roma | Disliking old buildings and narrow streets, he openly set fire to the city. | Nero 38 |
| AD 65 | Roma | In one autumn, a plague in which thirty thousand deaths were recorded in the register of the temple of Libitina. | Nero 39 |
| AD 66 | Roma | Tiridates's entry into Rome: with cohorts drawn up in the Forum, Nero sat on a curule chair on the platform and, at the king's request, removed the turban and crowned him. | Nero 13 |
| AD 66 – 67 | Achaia | Claiming that only Greeks had an ear for music, he set out without delay on a journey to Greece. | Nero 22 |
| AD 67 | Achaia | He proclaimed the whole Greek province a free state and gave the judges of the games Roman citizenship and large sums of money. | Nero 24 |
| AD 68 | Parthenope | On returning from Greece, at Naples, where he first appeared on stage, he entered through a gap in the demolished walls, riding a chariot drawn by white horses. | Nero 25 |
| AD 68 | Gallia | After almost fourteen years of putting up with Nero, the world turned against him; Julius Vindex, governor of Gaul, was the first to rebel. | Nero 40 |
| AD 68 | Hispania | He received word that Galba and the Spaniards had risen against him. | Nero 42 |
| AD 68 | Roma | On news that all the armies had turned against him, he overturned the table, went to the Servilian gardens to get poison, and ordered his freedmen to Ostia to prepare the fleet. | Nero 47 |
| AD 68 | Roma | He ordered a pit dug to his own body size and hesitated while examining the edges of two daggers. | Nero 49 |
| AD 68 | Roma | The day his reign ended was the same day on which he had killed Octavia. | Nero 57 |
| AD 68 | Clunia | In the courthouse he set up statues of those executed by Nero, and, lamenting the times, was unanimously acclaimed as emperor; yet he declared himself 'lieutenant of the Senate and the Roman people'. | Galba 10 |
| AD 68 | Roma | Disheartened by Vindex's death, he even thought of suicide; but on news that Nero had died and everyone had sworn allegiance, he dropped the title of lieutenant, took the name Caesar, and marched on Rome. | Galba 11 |
| AD 68 – 69 | Roma | When the chance came he joined Galba's uprising; aiming at the throne, he invited Galba to dinner and each time distributed gold coins to all the men of the guard battalion. | Otho 4 |
| AD 68 | Germania | Galba unexpectedly sent him to Lower Germany, saying that someone who knew only how to eat had nothing to fear. | Vitellius 7 |
| AD 69 | Germania | The army of Upper Germany, enraged at not being rewarded for suppressing Vindex's revolt, sent envoys to the Praetorian guard. | Galba 16 |
| AD 69 | Roma | Believing that his lack of children made him despised, he adopted the young nobleman Piso as a son in the camp, but did not mention a gift of money, which gave Otho an opportunity. | Galba 17 |
| AD 69 | Roma | On the morning before he was killed, during a sacrifice, the soothsayer repeatedly warned that the assassins were near; he stayed in the palace and posted only legionary soldiers as guards. | Galba 19 |
| AD 69 | Roma | Killed at seventy-three, in the seventh month of his reign; the Senate ordered a statue set up on the naval column in the Forum where he was killed, but Vespasian cancelled it. | Galba 23 |
| AD 69 | Roma | As soon as Piso left, he seized the camp and tried to attack Galba, who was dining in the palace; the same battalion that had stood guard at Gaius's killing and at Nero's desertion was on guard again this time. | Otho 6 |
| AD 69 | Roma | Toward evening he entered the Senate and, having been seized in the street and forced to accept the throne, made a short speech. | Otho 7 |
| AD 69 | Germania | The garrison in Germany swore allegiance to Vitellius as emperor; war became unavoidable, and the Praetorians nearly killed the senators. | Otho 8 |
| AD 69 | Bedriacum | Opinion favored prolonging the war, but he hastily chose a decisive battle, the battle of Bedriacum (in the next chapter his father Suetonius Lenis is attested to have fought). | Otho 9 |
| AD 69 | Brixellum | Just before suicide, a great commotion in the camp delayed him for a while, but he finally killed himself; the soldiers kissed the hands and feet of the corpse and wept. | Otho 11 |
| AD 69 | Germania | On reaching the camp he granted all requests and pardoned those who had been punished, winning favor, and accepted the acclamation of the army of Upper Germany. | Vitellius 8 |
| AD 69 | Gallia | Hearing in Gaul of the victory at Bedriacum and of Otho's death, he disbanded the entire Praetorian guard with a single proclamation. | Vitellius 10 |
| AD 69 | Roma | Trumpets sounding, in a general's cloak and with a sword, he entered Rome with standards and banners in front, and took the chief pontificate on the day of the Allia defeat. | Vitellius 11 |
| AD 69 | Moesia | In the eighth month of his reign the Moesian and Pannonian armies revolted, and across the sea the Judean and Syrian armies also swore allegiance to Vespasian. | Vitellius 15 |
| AD 69 | Roma | He tried to slip secretly away to Campania in a small litter, with only a baker and a cook, to his father's house on the Aventine. | Vitellius 16 |
| AD 69 | Roma | While the enemy vanguard searched the palace, he was slowly tortured to death at the Scalae Gemoniae, and then dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber. | Vitellius 17 |
| AD 69 | Moesia | A detachment of 2,000 men sent from the Moesian army to support Otho, on the march, heard of Otho's death but continued the march anyway. | Vespasian 6 |
| AD 69 – 70 | Alexandria | He plunged into civil war, sent his generals and army to Italy, and crossed himself to Alexandria, the key to Egypt. | Vespasian 7 |
| AD 69 | Cremona | A letter arrives reporting that Vitellius's army was defeated at Cremona and that Vitellius died at Rome. | Vespasian 7 |
| AD 69 | (Nea) Paphos | On his way to congratulate Galba he consulted the oracle of Paphian Aphrodite about his voyage and received a firm assurance that he would obtain the throne. | Titus 5 |
| AD 69 | Roma | In the war with Vitellius he fled with his uncle Sabinus and some troops to the Capitol, and when the temple burned he hid all night beside the temple's keeper. | Domitian 1 |
| AD 71 | Roma | Returning to Rome he celebrated the triumph for the Judean victory and held the consulship eight more times; he restored order in the provinces, where soldiers on both the winning and the losing sides had become unruly. | Vespasian 8 |
| AD 71 – 75 | Roma | He rebuilt the Temple of Peace beside the Forum and the Temple of Claudius on the Caelian Hill, which Agrippina had begun and which had nearly collapsed. | Vespasian 9 |
| AD 71 | Roma | He celebrated a triumph together with his father, and jointly held the censorship, the tribunician office and seven consulships. | Titus 6 |
| AD 79 | Aquae Cutiliae | During his ninth consulship he fell ill in Campania and went to his Cutilian villa; while collapsing from diarrhea he said 'an emperor must die standing' and tried to rise, and died. | Vespasian 24 |
| AD 79 | Vesuvius | Calamity during his reign: the eruption of Vesuvius in Campania. | Titus 8 |
| AD 80 | Roma | He dedicated an amphitheatre and inaugurated a hastily built bath complex. | Titus 7 |
| AD 80 | Roma | Calamity during his reign: the great fire at Rome. | Titus 8 |
| AD 80 | Roma | Calamity during his reign: a plague. | Titus 8 |
| AD 81 | Aquae Cutiliae | He died on the Ides of September in the same villa where his father had died; on news of it, people mourned as if they had lost a close relative. | Titus 11 |
| AD 82 | Roma | He rebuilt the many buildings destroyed by fire and the Capitol, which had burned for the second time, and among others erected the temple of Jupiter Custos and the Forum of Nerva. | Domitian 5 |
| AD 83 | Germania | Among his many campaigns, one was toward Germany: expeditions born of necessity and of choice (chapter 6). | Domitian 6 |
| AD 92 | Roma | He issued an edict forbidding the planting of new vines, since wine overflowed and grain was short. | Domitian 7 |
| AD 95 | Roma | He had his cousin Flavius Clemens executed right after his consulship ended, on a trivial suspicion. | Domitian 15 |
| AD 96 | Roma | On the day before his death, a soothsayer from Germany interpreted lightning as predicting a change of regime; he had him tried and executed, and withdrew to his bedchamber. | Domitian 16 |
| AD 96 | Roma | While the conspirators hesitated over whether to strike him in the bath or at dinner, Stephanus, steward of Domitilla, offered advice and cooperation. | Domitian 17 |
| AD 96 | Roma | The common people were almost indifferent, but the soldiers were enraged, demanded his deification, and persistently demanded the punishment of his assassins. | Domitian 23 |
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