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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 Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, ... During this period, very few emperors died of natural causes. [41]
Theodosius I, the last emperor to rule over both the Eastern empire and the whole Western empire, died in 395 after making Christianity the official religion of the Empire. [ 14 ] The Western Roman Empire began to disintegrate in the early 5th century as the Germanic migrations and invasions of the Migration Period overwhelmed the capacity of ...
Vespasian died of an infection on 23 [55] or 24 [56] June 79 AD, and was immediately succeeded by his son Titus. [57] He was the first Roman emperor to come to the throne after his own biological father.
The Bosporan Kingdom was briefly annexed to the empire, and the First Jewish–Roman War began. When the Roman senator Vindex rebelled, with support from the eventual Roman emperor Galba, Nero was declared a public enemy and condemned to death in absentia. He fled Rome, and on 9 June AD 68 committed suicide.
Maximus's son Olybrius was acclaimed augustus of the Western Roman Empire. 18 August: Ricimer died. Ricimer's nephew Gundobad succeeded him as Magister militum and took the title Patrician. Olybrius died. 473: 3 March: The Germanic elements of the army elected the domesticus Glycerius augustus of the Western Roman Empire.
The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean ... the last Roman emperor. He died in battle in 1453 against Mehmed II and his ... was integral to almost every social ...
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