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    Marcus Didius Julianus (/ˈdɪdiəs/; 29 January 133 – 2 June 193) was Roman emperor from March to June 193, during the Year of the Five Emperors. Julianus had...
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    193, in which five men claimed the title of Roman emperor: Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus. This year...
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    throne in response to the murder of Pertinax and the elevation of Didius Julianus, but was defeated by a rival claimant, Septimius Severus, and killed...
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    imperial position, which senator Didius Julianus won and became the new emperor.[citation needed] Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman...
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  • imperial power. The year opened with the brief reigns of Pertinax and Didius Julianus, before erupting to a full-scale war between the generals Pescennius...
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    the Five Emperors. After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the Roman generals Pescennius...
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    was the wealthy senator Didius Julianus, whose reign would end mere weeks later with his assassination on 1 June 193. Julianus was succeeded by Septimius...
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    who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest bidder, offers 300 million sesterces for the throne. Roman...
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    Didius Julianus and Empress Manlia Scantilla. She was born and raised in Rome. Little is known about her personality or life. After Didius Julianus purchased...
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  • sons were: Didius Proculus, married, his son was betrothed to his niece Didia Clara. Didius Nummius Albinus Marcus Didius Severus Julianus, 137 AD, best...
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    ancestry. Manlia Scantilla married the senator Didius Julianus before his succession. Around 153, she bore Julianus a daughter and only child, Didia Clara, who...
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  • Quintus Aemilius Laetus 192 – 193 Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julianus Titus Flavius Genialis 193 Didius Julianus Tullius Crispinus 193 Didius Julianus...
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    other prominent consulars and senators. Didius Julianus, the future emperor and a relative of Salvius Julianus, was dismissed from the governorship of...
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    Emperors ensued. After the quick successive removals of Pertinax and Didius Julianus from power, this period had the general-turned-emperor Septimius Severus...
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    "Julian I" is applied either to the emperor Didius Julianus (r. 193), or to the usurper Sabinus Julianus (r. 283–285). He is even more rarely called Julian...
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    arranged the murder, "sold" the imperial throne to wealthy senator Didius Julianus, effectively crowning him emperor. A string of mutinies by the troops...
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  • custom of the donativum was the Guard's auctioning of the empire to Didius Julianus in 193. Congiarium Pay (Roman army) SHA, Hadr. 5.7. SHA, Hadr. 23.12;...
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  • positions during the reigns of emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus and Didius Julianus, which included suffect consul and Urban prefect of Rome. Repentinus...
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    already been paid. The Praetorians then put the empire up to auction and Didius Julianus bought the title of emperor. However, the armies of the Danube chose...
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  • 110 – c. 170), generally referred to as Salvius Julianus, or Julian the Jurist, or simply Julianus, was a well known and respected jurist, public official...
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    Didia gens (redirect from Didius)
    193. Didius Q. f. Q. n. Proculus, brother of the emperor Didius Julianus. Didius Q. f. Q. n. Nummius Albinus, brother of the emperor Didius Julianus. Didia...
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    known as the Year of the Five Emperors, during which Helvius Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus held the imperial...
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    Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius Lucius Verus Commodus Pertinax Didius Julianus Septimius Severus Caracalla Geta Macrinus (w. Diadumenian) Elagabalus...
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  • the Senate to install the Senator Didius Julianus as Emperor. Septimius Severus called the death of Didius Julianus divine providence and ordered the...
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    Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius Lucius Verus Commodus Pertinax Didius Julianus Septimius Severus Caracalla Geta Macrinus (w. Diadumenian) Elagabalus...
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  • year) to Yongxing of the Chinese Han Dynasty. Didia Clara, daughter of Didius Julianus Kong Rong, Chinese official and warlord (d. 208) Zhang Hong, Chinese...
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    and remained at Antioch. He sent a force of cavalry commanded by Ulpius Julianus to regain control of the rebels, but they failed and Ulpius died in the...
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    putting the Imperial throne up for auction to the highest bidder (cf: Didius Julianus). Thus Diocletian, who ruled from Nicomedia, promoted two faithful...
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    loyal to Macrinus, but they were unsuccessful. Praetorian prefect Ulpius Julianus responded by attacking the Third Legion, most likely on Macrinus's orders...
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    Bas-relief scenes depicting events of the Marcomannic Wars In the same year, Didius Iulianus, the commander of the Rhine frontier, repelled another invasion...
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