Roman Emperor

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Roman Emperor

GOVERNMENT OFFICE

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27BC 14 Caesar Augustus first Emperor, died of natural causes

14 37 Tiberius smothered after he emerged from a coma

37 41 Caligula assassinated by the Praetorian Guard

41 54 Claudius poisoned

54 68 Nero committed suicide

68 69 Galba killed by his successor

69 69 Otho suicide after defeat in battle

69 69 Vitellius murdered by his own soldiers in Rome

69 79 Vespasian died after an illness

79 81 Titus died from a fever

81 96 Domitian stabbed repeatedly by Stephanus

96 98 Nerva elderly and mostly innocuous ruler

98 117 Trajan died during a bout of dropsy

117 138 Hadrian died after a long, painful illness

138 161 Antoninus Pius died from a fever

161 180 Marcus Aurelius co-emperor with Lucius Verus

161 169 Lucius Verus co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius

180 192 Commodus strangled by wrestler Narcissus

193 193 Pertinax killed by unpaid soldiers

193 193 Didius Julianus bought the throne by auction

193 211 Septimius Severus died at York, Britain

193 195 Pescennius Niger

195 197 Clodius Albinus

211 217 Caracalla assassinated

211 211 Geta

217 218 Macrinus

218 222 Elagabalus murder or intrigue

222 235 Severus Alexander

235 238 Maximinus murdered at Aquileia with his son

238 238 Gordian I

238 238 Gordian II

238 238 Balbinus

238 238 Pupienus

238 244 Gordian III

244 249 Philip the Arab aka Philip I, killed in battle

249 251 Decius killed in battle

251 253 Trebonianus Gallus

253 253 Aemilian

253 260 Valerian

253 268 Gallienus

260 268 Postumus

269 269 Laelianus

269 269 Marius

269 271 Victorinus

271 274 Tetricus

268 270 Claudius II Gothicus

270 270 Quintillus

270 275 Aurelian assassinated en route to Byzantium

275 276 Tacitus war or mutiny

276 276 Florianus

276 282 Probus

282 283 Carus killed during Persian war, probably murder

283 285 Carinus assassinated

283 284 Numerianus

284 305 Diocletian retire from office, with Maximian

286 305 Maximian co-Emperor, forced to retire by Diocletian

286 293 Carausius

293 297 Allectus

305 306 Constantius I Chlorus

305 311 Galerius

306 307 Severus II

306 312 Maxentius drowned in the Tiber

306 337 Constantine the Great

308 324 Licinius

337 340 Constantine II

337 361 Constantius II

337 350 Constans I

350 353 Magnentius

361 363 Julian the Apostate

363 364 Jovian

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