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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 Thirty Tyrants (Latin: Tyranni Triginta) were a series of thirty rulers who appear in the Historia Augusta, as having ostensibly been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire during the reign of the emperor Gallienus. Given the notorious unreliability of the Historia Augusta, the veracity of this list is debatable.
Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard (13 P) Pages in category "Murdered Roman emperors" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire .
The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Romans conquered most of this during the Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of effective sole rule in 27 BC.
Western Roman Emperor: September 6, 394: Frigidus River: Western Roman Empire: Theodosius I [73] Constantine III: Co-Western Roman Emperors: c. September 18, 411 Ravenna: Constantius III [74] [75] Constans II: Vienne: Gerontius [74] [75] Joannes: Western Roman Emperor: June 425: Aquileia: Ardabur [76] Hassan Yuha'min: King of Himyar: 448: Iraq ...
1944. In world history, this year ranks among the worst. The Holocaust was at its height, and much of the world was engulfed in war. In a period spanning mid-May to early July of this year alone ...
To medieval Christians, Diocletian was the most loathsome of all Roman emperors. [345] From the 4th century on, Christians would describe the great persecution of Diocletian's reign as a bloodbath. [346] The Liber Pontificalis, a collection of biographies of the popes, alleges 17,000 martyrs within a single thirty-day period. [347]