{"slug": "caligula", "label": "Caligula", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409", "qid": "Q1409", "description": "third Roman emperor (37–41)", "entries": 17, "years": 11, "span": [12, 52], "span_label": ["12 CE", "52 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-emperor", "label": "Roman Emperor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "tiberius", "label": "Tiberius", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "praetorian-guard", "label": "Praetorian Guard", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "agrippina-the-elder", "label": "Agrippina the Elder", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "temple-in-jerusalem", "label": "Temple in Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gnaeus-domitius-corbulo", "label": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jew", "label": "Jew", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 12, "year_label": "12 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – Caligula, Roman emperor (d. 41 AD)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#12_AD", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Births › 12 AD"}}, {"year": 29, "year_label": "29 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Agrippina the Elder is exiled to the island of Pandataria, and her sons (except Caligula) are imprisoned by Lucius Aelius Sejanus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Roman_Empire", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 29 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 30, "year_label": "30 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Agrippina the Elder (the wife of Germanicus) and two of her sons, Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, are arrested and exiled on orders of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (the prefect of the Praetorian Guard), and later starved to death in suspicious circumstances. In Sejanus's purge of Agrippina the Elder and her family, her son Caligula, and her three daughters, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla are the only survivors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 30 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 34, "year_label": "34 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Naevius Sutorius Macro gains favour in the Roman Empire by prostituting his wife Ennia Thrasylla to Caligula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 34 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 35, "year_label": "35 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Tiberius names Caligula (aka Gaius) and Gamellus, a grandson, as co-heirs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 35 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 37, "year_label": "37 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will, and proclaims Caligula as Roman Emperor, nullifying the joint claim of Tiberius Gemellus. Caligula's attempt to have himself deified creates friction between himself and the Senate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 37 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 38, "year_label": "38 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Apion heads a deputation to Emperor Caligula, to complain about the Jews in Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 38 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 38, "year_label": "38 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (b. AD 16)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#38_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Deaths › 38 AD"}}, {"year": 39, "year_label": "39 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 39 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 39, "year_label": "39 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 39 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 39, "year_label": "39 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Julia Drusilla, daughter of Caligula (d. AD 41)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#39_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Births › 39 AD"}}, {"year": 39, "year_label": "39 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the Temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for having an erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in AD 41.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Palestine", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 39 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy of Mauretania, Roman client king (executed by Caligula)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Deaths › AD 40"}}, {"year": 41, "year_label": "41 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_41", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 41"}}, {"year": 41, "year_label": "41 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Caligula, Roman emperor (assassinated) (b. 12 AD)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_41", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Deaths › AD 41"}}, {"year": 52, "year_label": "52 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Claudius completes the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus, two aqueduct projects started by Caligula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Roman_Empire", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 52 AD › Roman Empire"}}]}