Julius Caesar, Dictator for life |
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Julio-Claudian dynasty27BC-14AD: Octavian or Augustus |
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14-37: Tiberius |
37-41: Caligula | |
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41-54: Claudius |
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54-68: Nero |
Year of the Four Emperors68-69: Galba Image, courtesy of Wildwinds.com |
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69: Otho 69: Vitellius |
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Flavian dynasy69-79: Vespasian |
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79-81: Titus |
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81-96: Domitian |
Five Good Emperors96-98: Nerva |
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98-117: Trajan |
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117-38: Hadrian |
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138-61: Antoninus Pius |
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161-80: Marcus Aurelius |
161-69: Lucius Aurelius Verus | |
180-92: Commodus | |
193: Pertinax 193: Didius Julian |
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193-211: Septimius Severus | |
211-17: Caracalla | |
209-11: Geta | |
217-18: Macrinus | |
218-22: Elagabalus | |
222-35: Alexander Severus | |
235-38: Maximin | |
238: Gordian I 238: Gordian II 238: Pupienus 238: Balbinus |
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238-44: Gordian III | |
244-49: Philipp "Arabs" |
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249-51: Decius | |
251: Hostilian | |
251-53: Gallus | |
253: Aemilian | |
253-59: Valerian | |
259-68: Gallienus | |
268-70: Claudius II | |
270: Quintillus | |
270-75: Aurelian | |
275-76: Tacitus | |
276: Florian | |
276-82: Probus | |
282-83: Carus | |
283-84: Numerian | |
283-85: Carinus | |
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284-305: Diocletian |
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286-305: Maximian |
305-306: Constantius I 305-311: Galerius |
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306-7: Severus | |
306-8: Maximian | |
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306-12: Maxentius |
308-13: Maximinus Daia | |
311-24: Licinius |
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311-37: Constantine I |
337-40: Constantine II | |
337-61: Constantius II | |
337-50: Constans | |
361-63: Julian | |
363-64: Jovian |
364-75: Valentinian I | |
364-78: (East) Valens | |
375-83: (West) Gratian | |
375-92: (West) Valentinian II | |
379-95: (West) Theodosius | |
383-88: Maximus | |
392-94: Eugenius | |
395-408: (East) Arcadius | |
395-423: (West) Honorius | |
421: Constantius III | |
423-25: Johannes | |
408-50: (East) Theodosius II | |
425-55: (West) Valentinian III | |
450-57: (East) Marcian | |
455: (West) Petronius | |
455-56: (West) Avitus | |
457-61: (West) Majorian | |
457-74: (East) Leo I | |
461-65: (West) Severus | |
467-72: (West) Anthemius | |
472: (West) Olybrius | |
473: (West) Glycerius | |
473-75: (West) Julius Nepos | |
473-74: (East) Leo II | |
474-91: (East) Zeno | |
475-76: (West) Romulus Augustulus |
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This page is adapted from The Time Line of the Roman Empire.