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Caligula
Caligula: emperor of the Roman world (37-41).
Names:
- 31 August 12 CE: Gaius Caesar Germanicus
- Autumn 14: nickname Caligula ('soldier's boot')
- 18 March 37: Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
- 24 January 41: murdered by soldiers
Successor of: Tiberius
Relatives
- father: Germanicus
- mother: Agrippina Maior
- married to: Junia Claudilla, Orestilla, Lollia Paulina, Milona Caesonia
- child: Julia Drusilla
Early career
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Caligula - 14-17 With Germanicus in the Rhineland, where soldiers call him 'Caligula'
- 29 Funeral speech for Livia
- 30 To Capri
- 33 Quaestor
Main deeds
- 37 Consul suffectus; succeeds Tiberius; falls ill; Herod Agrippa made king
- Execution of Tiberius Gemellus
- 38 Trip to Sicily; September: pogrom in Alexandria; fall and death of praetorian prefect Macro, who is succeeded by Cassius Chaerea
- 39 Consul II (with Lucius Apronius Caesianus); conspiracy of Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus
- 39/40 Stay in Lyon
- 40 Consul III (with Gaius Laecanius Bassus); Visit to the North Sea near Praetorium Agrippinae (more...); return to Rome; ovatio; murder of Ptolemy of Mauretania; riots in Judaea
- 41 Consul IV (with Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus); assassinated by Cassius Chaerea
- Damnatio memoriae
New legions: XV Primigenia; XXII Primigenia
Inscription from a wine barrel, mentioning Caligula
ildings: Temple of Augustus; Circus of Caligula (Vatican); new aqueducts for Rome
Succeeded by: Claudius
Contemporary events:
- 39 Death of Seneca the Elder