B.C.
30:
Octavian receives tribunician power for life; Horace’s 2nd book of Satires
29:
Virgil’s Georgics; Horace’s Epodes
27:
Octavian becomes Augustus
27-A.D. 68:
JULIO-CLAUDIAN DYNASTY
27-A.D. 14:
Principate of Augustus
25:
Agrippa’s Pantheon; fl. Tibullus
23:
First 3 books of Horace’s Odes
20:
First book of Horace’s Epistles
19:
Death of Virgil; fl. Propertius
18:
Lex lulia de adulteriis
13:
Theater of Marcellus; fourth book of Horace’s Odes
12-9:
Campaigns of Drusus in Germany; Tiberius subjugates Pannonia
9:
Fl. Livy; Ara Pacis of Augustus
8:
Death of Maecenas and Horace
6:
Tiberius in Rhodes
2:
Banishment of Julia
A.D. 4:
Augustus adopts Tiberius
8:
Ovid banished to Tomi
9:
Defeat of Varus in Germany; lex Papia Poppaea and lex lulia de maritandis ordinibus
14:
Death of Augustus
14-37:
Principate of Tiberius
14-16:
Germanicus and Drusus in Germany
17-18:
Germanicus in the Near East
18:
Death of Ovid
19:
Death of Germanicus; trial of Piso
20:
Lex maiestatis; rise of informers
23-31:
Rule of Sejanus
27:
Tiberius settles at Capraea
29:
Death of Livia; banishment of Agrippina
30:
Fl. Celsus, encyclopedist
31:
Death of Sejanus
37-41:
Principate of Gaius (Caligula)
41-54:
Principate of Claudius
41-49:
Exile of Seneca
43:
Conquest of Britain
48:
Death of Messalina; Claudius marries Agrippina the Younger
49:
Seneca praetor, and tutor to Nero
54-68:
Principate of Nero
55:
Seneca dedicates De Clementia to Nero; Nero poisons Britannicus
59:
Nero orders death of his mother Agrippina
62:
Fall of Seneca; death of Persius; Nero kills Octavia and marries Poppaea
64:
Burning of Rome; first persecution of Christians in Rome
A.D.
65:
Execution of Seneca and Lucan
66:
Death of Petronius and Thrasea Paetus
68-69:
Principate of Galba
69 (Jan.-Apr.):
Principate of Otho
69 (July-Dec):
Principate of Vitellius
69-96:
FLAVIAN DYNASTY
69-79:
Principate of Vespasian
70:
The Colosseum; Quintilian fills first state professorship
71:
Vespasian banishes philosophers
72:
Suicide of Helvidius Priscus
79-81:
Principate of Titus
79:
Eruption of Vesuvius; death of the elder Pliny
81:
Arch of Titus
81-96:
Principate of Domitian; fl. Martial and Statius
81-84:
Campaigns of Agricola in Britain
93:
Persecution of Jews, Christians, and philosophers
96-98:
Principate of Nerva
98:
Tacitus consul
98-117:
Principate of Trajan
101-2:
Trajan’s first war against the Dacians
105:
Tacitus’ Histories
105-7:
Trajan’s second war against the Dacians
111:
Pliny the Younger curator of Bithynia
113:
Forum and column of Trajan
114-6:
Trajan’s campaigns against Parthia
116:
Tacitus’ Annals; Juvenal’s Satires
117-38:
Principate of Hadrian
119:
Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars
121-34:
Hadrian’s tour of the Empire
134:
Fl. Salvius Julianus, jurist
138-61:
Principate of Antoninus Pius
139:
Mausoleum of Hadrian
161-80:
Principate of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
161-9:
Co-reign of Lucius Verus
161:
Institutiones of Gaius
162-5:
War against Parthia
166-7:
Plague spreads through the Empire
166-80:
War with the Marcomanni
174 (?):
Marcus writes the Meditations
175:
Rebellion of Avidius Cassius
180:
Death of Marcus Aurelius
180-92:
Principate of Commodus
183:
Conspiracy of Lucilla
185:
Execution of Perennis
189:
Famine; execution of Cleander
190:
Pertinax, prefect
193
(Jan. 1): Murder of Commodus