Tacitus (emperor)
Tacitus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 275-276).
Names:
- c.200: Marcus Claudius Tacitus
- December 275: Imperator Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus
- July 276: uncertain cause of death
Successor of: Aurelian
Main deeds
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Milestone of Tacitus - 273 Consul
- Princeps Senatus
- 275 Consul suffectus II (?); elected by the army after the death of Aurelian
- 276 Consul II or III (with Aemilianus); defeats the Visigoths; accepts the title Gothicus maximus; assassinated on his way to the east
Succeeded by: Florian
Links
- biography from the Historia Augusta