Death of Augustus
The first Roman emperor died at Nola after a reign of more than forty years; his adopted son Tiberius succeeded him, and the rule of one man became the settled order of the Roman state.
- Date
- 19 August 14exact dateDate in the Julian calendar
- Place
- Nolatoday: Nola, Campania, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Augustus, Tiberius, Roman Empire
- Threads
- Europe in the Roman age (1st–5th c.)
Augustus died on 19 August AD 14 at Nola in Campania, in the same house where his father had died. Tiberius, long marked out as his heir and already holding tribunician power, took over the government; on 17 September the Senate declared Augustus a god, and his own account of his achievements, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, was set up on bronze tablets before his mausoleum in Rome.
The smooth transfer of power showed that the principate — a monarchy in the forms of the old republic — would outlive its founder. Among Augustus’s last counsels, according to Tacitus, was to keep the empire within its existing frontiers.
Connections
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- Battle of the Teutoburg ForestSeptember 9 · Western and Central EuropeAugustus’s last advice was to keep the empire within its frontiers
Same participants
- Roman–Bosporan War45–49 · Eastern Europevia Roman Empire
Same place
- Eruption of Vesuviusbetween 24 August and 1 November 79 · Western and Central Europe
Adjacent events in the thread
- Boudica’s revoltbetween 60 and 61 · Western and Central Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 25 years of this event
Eastern Europe
- Zarubintsy culturec. 200 BC – c. 200
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Augustus
- Wikipedia (English): Res Gestae Divi Augusti
- Wikipedia (Russian): Октавиан Август
- Eck W. The Age of Augustus. — Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
- Машкин Н. А. Принципат Августа: происхождение и социальная сущность. — М.; Л.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1949.