Antoninus Pius
Antoninus Pius: emperor of the Roman world (r.138-161).
Names:
- 19 September 86: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius (Arrius?) Antoninus
- 25 January 138: Imperator Titus Aelius Caesar Hadrianus Antoninus
- 10 July 138: Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus
- 7 March 161: natural death
Successor of: Hadrian
Relatives:
- father: Aurelius Fulvius
- mother: Arria Fadilla
- married to: Faustina I
- children: Marcus Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus, Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus, Aurelia Fadilla, Faustina II (married to Marcus Aurelius)
Early career
Main deeds
- 138 Succeeds Hadrian; accepts the title Pius
- 139 Consul II (with Gaius Bruttius Praesens); victory over the Brigantes by Lollius Urbicus; apotheosis of Hadrian
- 140 Consul III (with Marcus Aurelius, caesar)
- 141 Death of Faustina I
- 144 Outbreak of war against the Moors
- 145 Consul IV (with with Marcus Aurelius II, caesar); dedication of Temple of Hadrian; Antoninus' daughter Faustina II marries Marcus Aurelius
- 148 Celebration of Rome's ninth centennial; Decennalia; debasement of the denarius
- 152 End of the Moorish war
- 157 Operations in Dacia; accepts the titles Germanicus and Dacicus
- 158 Vicennalia
- 159 Reorganization of Dacia
- 160 Risings in Africa suppressed
- 161 Death
Buildings:
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Antoninus Pius (bust from Philippi) - Baalbek: temple of Bacchus and Great Court of the temple of Jupiter
Succeeded by: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Contemporary events
- c.140 Ptolemy of Alexandria's Almagest
- 144 Marcion of Sinope excommunicated
- 151 An earthquake destroys Mytilene and Smyrna
- 155 Execution of Polycarpus of Smyrna
- 156 Beginning of the career of Montanus
- 161 Gaius, Institutiones
Links
- biography included in the Historia Augusta