{"slug": "aurelian", "label": "Aurelian", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46780", "qid": "Q46780", "description": "Roman Emperor (C.E.214-275)", "entries": 13, "years": 11, "span": [214, 276], "span_label": ["214 CE", "276 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "goths", "label": "Goths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "serbia", "label": "Serbia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "britannia", "label": "Britannia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "raetia", "label": "Raetia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 214, "year_label": "214 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – Aurelian, Roman emperor (d. 275)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187273#Births", "title": "214", "revid": 1371187273, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 256, "year_label": "256 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cities in the Roman Empire begin to build walls, as the defense of the frontiers begins to crumble; future emperor Aurelian inspects along the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188385#Roman_Empire", "title": "256", "revid": 1371188385, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 257, "year_label": "257 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Future emperor Aurelian defeats the Goths and brings many prisoners back to Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187339#Roman_Empire", "title": "257", "revid": 1371187339, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 268, "year_label": "268 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – Battle of Naissus: Emperor Gallienus, aided by Aurelian, defeats a Gothic coalition (50,000 warriors) near Naissus (Niš, modern Serbia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325890231#Roman_Empire", "title": "268", "revid": 1325890231, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 270, "year_label": "270 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Domitius Aurelianus (or Aurelian), the cavalry commander who distinguished himself in the previous year at the Battle of Naissus (Serbia), usurps power in Sirmium and marches against Quintillus in Aquileia. Quintillus commits suicide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358050431#Roman_Empire", "title": "270", "revid": 1358050431, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 271, "year_label": "271 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After an indecisive battle, Emperor Aurelian defeats the Vandals, and forces them from Pannonia, and across the Danube.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347633744#Roman_Empire", "title": "271", "revid": 1347633744, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 272, "year_label": "272 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Aurelian launches a two-pronged invasion of the Palmyrene Empire, sending his commander Marcus Aurelius Probus to restore Roman rule in Egypt while he marches into Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371192173#Roman_Empire", "title": "272", "revid": 1371192173, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 273, "year_label": "273 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Aurelian defeats an incursion by the Carpi into Moesia and Thrace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325892096#Roman_Empire", "title": "273", "revid": 1325892096, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 274, "year_label": "274 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Châlons: The Emperor Aurelian invades Gaul to campaign against the Gallic Empire (Gaul and Britain). In the Catalaunian Plains, the Romano-Gallic Emperor Tetricus I surrenders to Aurelian and leaves his army without an emperor. The Gallic army is then crushed by Aurelian in a major battle. With the conquests of the Palmyrene Empire and the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire is united again. However, the heavy losses incurred by the Gallic forces compromises the Rhine frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271086341#Roman_Empire", "title": "274", "revid": 1271086341, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 275, "year_label": "275 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Aurelian puts down unrest in Gaul, and defeats Germanic incursions into Gaul and Raetia (these problems had been caused by Aurelian's defeat and overthrow of the Gallic Empire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308801318#Roman_Empire", "title": "275", "revid": 1308801318, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 275, "year_label": "275 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "c. November – Aurelian, Roman emperor (b. 214 or 215)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308801318#Deaths", "title": "275", "revid": 1308801318, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 276, "year_label": "276 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Probus returns the aurelianianus to the tariffing of Aurelian.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074469#Roman_Empire", "title": "276", "revid": 1267074469, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 276, "year_label": "276 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Tacitus' cousin Maximinus administers Syria in a harsh manner, and is assassinated by local men of power, who are joined in the conspiracy by the faction responsible for having assassinated Aurelian in the previous year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074469#Roman_Empire", "title": "276", "revid": 1267074469, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}