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Augustus died in AD 14 at age 75, probably from natural causes. Persistent rumors, substantiated somewhat by deaths in the imperial family, have claimed his wife Livia poisoned him. He was succeeded as emperor by his adopted son Tiberius, Livia's son and former husband of Augustus's only biological child, Julia.
John Augustus Tolton (baptized Augustine; April 1, 1854 – July 9, 1897) was an African American who served as first Black Catholic priest in the United States, ordained in Rome in 1886. He was preceded by the Healy brothers , Catholic priests who passed as White.
Near the end of his life, Augustus traveled to his villa in modern-day Nola. According to Tacitus and Suetonius, Augustus died on August 19 AD 14, in the villa, [1] with Suetonius claiming he died in the same room in which his father had died. [2] Following Augustus's death at the villa, his body was carried on a procession from Nola. [2]
The text is not a full account of the years between 44 BC, the assassination of Augustus' adoptive father Julius Caesar, and AD 14, the year in which he died. Instead, it is a personal account of the first Emperor's life and those achievements that he decided to be worth remembering by the Roman people. [8]
The early life of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, began at his birth in Rome on September 23, 63 BC, and is considered to have ended around the assassination of Dictator Julius Caesar, Augustus' great-uncle and adoptive father, on 15 March 44 BC.
Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14.
Colvin died on Sunday in Syracuse, New York, according to ProLiteracy, the nonprofit organization created by the merger of Literacy Volunteers and Laubach Literacy in 2002.
[37] Augustus died on 19 August AD 14, a month before his 76th birthday and exactly 56 years after he first assumed the consulship. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] He was cremated with all due ceremony and, as had been arranged beforehand, deified , his will read, and Tiberius, now a middle-aged man at 55, was confirmed as his sole surviving heir. [ 46 ]