20 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
Southern Europe (12)
After a reign of about 44 years, Augustus dies of illness at Nola. Raetia and Illyricum are added to the empire, but Germania is not pacified. (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus Aur. Vict. Caes. 1.2)
He sent Tiberius to Illyricum and meant to accompany him as far as Beneventum, but was detained by a request about a lawsuit. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Augustus 95 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 97장))
He died in the same room in which his father Octavius had died; the Senate discussed a solemn funeral procedure. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Augustus 98 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 38장))
Using tribunician power he convened the Senate and began a mournful speech, but sighed deeply and pretended he could not go on speaking. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Tiberius 23)
The final journey of the ailing Augustus ends at Nola (Nola is mentioned in the text) (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 1.5)
First crime of the new reign — Agrippa Postumus of Planasia is killed by a centurion (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 1.6)
Discussion of Augustus' funeral; the will brought by the Vestal Virgins names Tiberius and Livia as heirs (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 1.8)
Mutiny breaks out in the Pannonian legions, taking advantage of the change of emperor (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 1.16)
A unit sent to Nauportus for road and bridge work hears the uproar in the camp, pulls up its standards and plunders (Tacitus, Annals and Histories Ann. 1.20)
Germanicus restored order among the garrisons in Germany, quelled the mutiny, and defeated the enemy. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Caligula 1)
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. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Caligula 9)