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Probus
Probus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 276-282).
Names:
- 19 August 232: Marcus Aurelius Probus
- July 276: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus
- October 282: lynched by soldiers
Successor of: Tacitus, Florianus
Relatives:
- father: Maximus or Dalmatius
Main deeds
- 232 Born in Sirmium
- Military service along the Danube during the reign of Valerian
- 276 Death of Tacitus and Florianus; Probus proclaimed emperor by the eastern armies; in the Sasanian empire; Bahram II succeeds Bahram I
- 277 Consul (with Paulinus); war against the Visigoths; accepts the title Gothicus
- 278 Consul II (with Virius Lupus); restores order in Gaul and the Rhineland; accepts the title Germanicus Maximus
- 279 Consul III (with Nonius Paternus II); war against the Isaurians in Asia Minor and the Blemmyans in Egypt; accepts the title Persicus Maximus and Medicus Maximus
- 280 Insurrection of Bonosus and Proculus in Cologne; Probus attacks
- 281 Consul IV (with Gaius Junius Tiberianus); Bonosus commits suicide; Proculus flees to the Franks but is handed over to Probus; the Rhine frontier restored; triumph in Rome; revolt of Saturninus in Antioch, but killed in Apamea
- 282 Consul V (with Victorinus); killed by soldiers
New legions: I Isaura Sagitaria; II Isaura; III Isaura
Buildings: completes the Wall of Aurelian
Succeeded by: Carus
Links
- biography from the Historia Augusta