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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.
Augustus appointed Germanicus commander of the forces in the Rhine the following year. In August AD 14, Augustus died and on 17 September the senate met to confirm Tiberius as princeps. [42] Roman writers, including Tacitus and Cassius Dio, mention that Augustus left a statement ordering the end of imperial expansion.
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
The Roman client Amyntas of Galatia died. Augustus organized his territory as the province of Galatia. 24 BC: Augustus' campaigns against the Cantabrians in Hispania Tarraconensis, the Cantabrian Wars, ended. 23 BC: Coinage reform of Augustus: Augustus centralized the minting of and reformed the composition and value of the Roman currency ...
Died after suffering a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides: Henry III: Monarchs of England and Ireland (England) 1 October 1207 1216–1272 16 November 1272 Died of illness. Margaret: House of Sverre Dunkeld (Scotland) 9 April 1283 1286–1290 26 September 1290 Food poisoning and sea sickness. Edward I "Longshanks"
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.
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 ]
[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 ]