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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]
Caesar updated the calendar so as to minimize the number of lost days due to the prior calendar's imprecision regarding the exact amount of time in a solar year. Caesar also renamed the fifth month (also the month of his birth) in the Roman calendar July, in his honor (Roman years started in March, not January as they do under the current ...
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47 BC, February – Battle of the Nile – Caesar defeats the forces of the Egyptian king Ptolemy XIII; 46 BC, 4 January – Battle of Ruspina – Caesar loses perhaps as much as a third of his army to Titus Labienus; 46 BC, 6 February – Battle of Thapsus – Caesar defeats the Pompeian army of Metellus Scipio in North Africa.
His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome , politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.
Maximinus II (caesar, 1 May 305; co-augustus, 1 May 310–early May 311) [7] Constantius I "Chlorus" Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius (West) 1 May 305 – 25 July 306 (1 year, 2 months and 24 days) Diocletian (augustus, 1 March 293–1 May 305) Maximian (augustus, 1 April 286–1 May 305) Galerius (caesar, 21 March 293; co-augustus, 1 May ...
Battle of Morbihan – Caesar defeats the Veneti in a sea battle. 55 BC – Caesar's first invasion of Britain – Caesar crosses the English Channel, winning a battle against the Celtic Britons, but achieves little else. 54 BC – Caesar's second invasion of Britain [5] – Caesar returns to Britain, and defeats Cassivellaunus.
Both his adoptive surname, Caesar, and his title Augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the Roman Empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at Old Rome and at New Rome. In many languages, Caesar became the word for emperor, as in the German Kaiser and in the Bulgarian and subsequently Russian Tsar (sometimes Csar ...