Titus
Titus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 79-81).
Names:
- 30 December 39: Titus Flavius Vespasianus
- July 69: Titus Caesar Vespasianus
- 2 September 70: Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus
- 24 June 79: Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus
- 13 September 81: natural death
Successor of: Vespasian
Relatives
- father: Vespasian
- mother: Flavia Domitilla
- married to: Arrecina Tertulla, Marcia Furnilla (affair with Berenice)
- children: Julia
Early career
-
Smyrna, Portrait of Caligula, reworked to resemble Titus - 60 Military tribune in Germania and Britain
- 65 Quaestor
- 66 Commander of XV Apollinaris
Main deeds
- 70 Consul I (with his father Vespasian); Titus takes Jerusalem
- 71 Consul II (with Vespasian); triumph of Vespasian and Titus; Gate of Janus closed; Titus praetorian prefect
- 73 Censorship
- 74 Consul III (with Vespasian)
- 75 Consul IV (with Vespasian); Berenice in Rome; she is later dismissed
- 76 Consul V (with Vespasian)
- 77 Consul VI (with Vespasian); Pliny the Elder dedicates the Natural history to Titus
- 79 Consul VII (with Vespasian); succeeds his father
- Berenice is briefly in Rome
- 80 Consul VIII (with his brother Domitian); fire in Rome; inauguration of the Colosseum and the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
- 81 Death; succeeded by Domitian
Buildings: Colosseum; Baths of Titus; Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; Temple of Vespasian; Triumphal Arch
Contemporary events
- 79 Eruption of the Vesuvius, destruction of Pompeii, death of Pliny the Elder
Succeeded by: Domitian