{"slug": "clodius-albinus", "label": "Clodius Albinus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237960", "qid": "Q237960", "description": "usurper and Caesar of the Roman Empire (c.150-197)", "entries": 9, "years": 6, "span": [187, 197], "span_label": ["187 CE", "197 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-legionary", "label": "Roman legionary", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "septimius-severus", "label": "Septimius Severus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-britain", "label": "Roman Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "britannia", "label": "Britannia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legion", "label": "Roman legion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-army", "label": "Roman army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus-title", "label": "Augustus (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-forest", "label": "Black Forest", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 187, "year_label": "187 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371308954#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 187", "revid": 1371308954, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 193, "year_label": "193 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "In Britain, Clodius Albinus allies with Septimius Severus, and accepts the title of Caesar. British tribes take advantage of the disorder in the Empire, and damage Hadrian's Wall. Extensive repairs to the defence work is carried out by the legionaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310592#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 193", "revid": 1371310592, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 193, "year_label": "193 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 28", "text": "March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest bidder, offers 300 million sesterces for the throne. Roman governors Clodius Albinus (Britannia) and Pescennius Niger (Syria) claim, with support of their troops, the imperial throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310592#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 193", "revid": 1371310592, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 194, "year_label": "194 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar becomes a Roman Consul.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310793#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 194", "revid": 1371310793, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 195, "year_label": "195 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Clodius Albinus, who had been proclaimed emperor in Britain, crosses into Gaul with his legions, while at the same time recruiting new soldiers. He is soon the head of an army of 150,000 men, according to Cassius Dio. Severus, still in Mesopotamia, hastily returns to Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314035#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 195", "revid": 1371314035, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 196, "year_label": "196 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314273#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 196", "revid": 1371314273, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 196, "year_label": "196 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314273#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 196", "revid": 1371314273, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 197, "year_label": "197 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314350#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 197", "revid": 1371314350, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 197, "year_label": "197 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Clodius Albinus, Roman general and usurper", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314350#Deaths", "title": "AD 197", "revid": 1371314350, "section": "Deaths"}}]}