Galba
Galba: emperor of the Roman world (68-69).
Names:
- 24 December 3 BCE: Servius Sulpicius Galba
- 8 June 68: Servius Galba Imperator Caesar Augustus
- 15 June 69: lynched by soldiers
Successor of: Nero
Relatives
- father: Gaius Sulpicius Galba
- mother: Mummia Achaica
- married to: Aemilia Lepida
- children: Two sons
Early career
- 3 BCE: Born in a villa near Tarracina
- c.30 Praetor
- 31-32 Propraetor of Aquitania
- 33 Consul
- 39-42 Propraetor of Germania Superior
- 43/44 With Claudius in Britain
- 44-46 Proconsul of Africa
- 46 Ornamenta triumphalia
- 60 Propraetor of Spain
Main deeds
- Spring 68: Revolts of Lucius Clodius Macer (in Numidia) and Julius Vindex (in Gaul);
- April 68: revolt of Galba in Hispania Tarraconensis
- Vindex' revolt suppressed by Verginius Rufus
- Praetorian prefect Nymphidius sides with Galba; Nero commits suicide; Nymphidius killed; Tigellinus replaced by Cornelius Laco
- Autumn: Galba in Rome; becomes pontifex maximus; Verginius Rufus replaced by Hordeonius Flaccus
- January 69: Consul II (with Titus Vinius); revolt of Vitellius; Galba adopts Piso; lynched by soldiers near the Lacus Curtius
- Damnatio memoriae
New legions: VII Galbiana