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  2. List of Roman emperors - Wikipedia

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    Augustus Caesar Augustus: 16 January 27 BC – 19 August AD 14 (40 years, 7 months and 3 days) [g] Grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar. Gradually acquired further power through grants from, and constitutional settlements with, the Roman Senate.

  3. Augustus - Wikipedia

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    Imperator Caesar Augustus On 16 January 27 BC, partly on his own insistence, the Roman Senate granted him the honorific Augustus (Latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]) . Historians use this name to refer to him from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. [ 13 ]

  4. Wars of Augustus - Wikipedia

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    The wars of Augustus are the military campaigns undertaken by the Roman government during the sole rule of the founder-emperor Augustus (30 BC – AD 14). This was a period of 45 years when almost every year saw major campaigning, in some cases on a scale comparable to the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), when Roman manpower resources were ...

  5. Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16) - Wikipedia

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    [13] [15] [16] Again in AD 4, Augustus sent Tiberius to the Rhine frontier as the commander in Germany. He campaigned in northern Germany for the next two years. During the first year, he conquered the Canninefati, the Attuarii, the Bructeri, and subdued the Cherusci. Soon thereafter, he declared the Cherusci "friends of the Roman people."

  6. Tetrarchy - Wikipedia

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    (2 years and 14 days) Diocletian (augustus, 21 July 285; co-augustus, 1 May 305) Galerius (caesar, 21 March 293) Constantius I (caesar, 1 March 293) Maxentius (co-augustus, 306–308) Constantine I (rival augustus, 25 July 306; co-augustus, 307) [7] Galerius Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (East) 1 May 305– 5 May 311 (6 years and 4 days ...

  7. The Twelve Caesars - Wikipedia

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    The subjects consist of: Julius Caesar (d. 44 BC), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian (d. 96 AD). The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian , was the most popular work of Suetonius , at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his ...

  8. Nero - Wikipedia

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    Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus ... in AD 51 while 13 years old. [11] When he turned 16, ... after the year AD 66. Tacitus described the rule of the Julio-Claudian ...

  9. Constitutional reforms of Augustus - Wikipedia

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    In 28 BC Augustus invalidated the emergency powers of the civil war era and in the following year announced that he was returning all his powers and provinces to the Senate and the Roman people. After senatorial uproar at this prospect, Augustus, feigning reluctance, accepted a ten-year responsibility for the "disordered provinces".