Claudius

Claudius: emperor of the Roman world (r.41-54).

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Successor of: Caligula

father: Drusus
mother: Antonia Minor
first wife: Plautia Urgulanilla
- son: Claudius Drusus (died as child)
- daughter: Claudia (not recognized)
second wife: Aelia Paetina
- daughter: Antonia
third wife: Messalina
- children: Octavia; Britannicus
fourth wife: Agrippina Minor

10 BCE: Born in Lyon
4 CE Surname Germanicus
14 Sodalis Augustalis
c.19: Birth of Claudius Drusus
37 Consul
39 Member of a senatorial delegation to Caligula, in Germania; marries Messalina
40 Birth of Octavia
41 Assassination of Caligula

Piraeus, Claudius

41 Accession; Chauci defeated by Gabinius; the kingdom of Herod Agrippa expanded; exile of Seneca; birth of Britannicus
42 Consul II (with Gaius Caecina Largus); revolt of Marcus Furius Camillus Scribonianus suppressed; Mauretania organized; fall of Gaius Appius Iunius Silanus; fall of Julia Livilla
43 Consul III (with Lucius Vitellius II); expedition to Britain; refuses the title Britannicus; fall of Julia Drusila and Catonius Justus
Return along Rhine and Upper Danube; Claudian army reforms (creation of the Rhine limes)
44 Return to Rome; triumph; death of Herod Agrippa; annexation of Mauretania and Judaea
45/46 Annexation of Thrace
47 Consul IV (with Lucius Vitellius III); censorship (with Lucius Vitellius); Ludi Saeculares; Corbulo attacks the Frisians; fall of Valerius Asiaticus, Mnester, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
48 Execution of Messalina; Claudius marries Agrippina Minor
49 Recall of Seneca; he becomes teacher of Claudius' stepson Nero
51 Consul V (with Servius Cornelius Salvidienus Orfitus; later with Titus Flavius Vespasianus); Burrus made praetorian prefect
52 Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus inaugurated
53 Nero marries Claudius' daughter Octavia; the Parthian Empire invades Armenia, where Tiridates becomes king
54 Poisoned

Buildings: Aqua Claudia; Aqua Anio Novus; port of Ostia

Succeeded by: Nero