{"slug": "gnaeus-domitius-corbulo", "label": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Domitius_Corbulo", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313066", "qid": "Q313066", "description": "Roman general, father of empress Domitia Longina", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [7, 67], "span_label": ["7 CE", "67 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "parthia", "label": "Parthia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seneca-the-younger", "label": "Seneca the Younger", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legion", "label": "Roman legion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "legio-x-fretensis", "label": "Legio X Fretensis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caligula", "label": "Caligula", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "euphrates", "label": "Euphrates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-army", "label": "Roman army", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 7, "year_label": "7 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "AD 7 – Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general (d. AD 67)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Births", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": 47, "year_label": "47 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior. He conquers the Chauci and fights against the Cherusci and Frisians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_47", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 47"}}, {"year": 54, "year_label": "54 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and takes up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers, Seneca and Burrus, to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Anatolia", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 54 AD › Anatolia"}}, {"year": 58, "year_label": "58 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman-Parthian War: Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, commander in the East, launches his Armenian offensive against Parthia. He leads a Roman army (four legions) through the mountainous country of Armenia, against the fortress at Volandum, to the southwest of Artaxata. After a siege of eight hours Corbulo takes the city; the legionnaires massacre the defenders and plunder Volandum to their hearts' content.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Caucasus", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 58 AD › Caucasus"}}, {"year": 59, "year_label": "59 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia. He installs Tigranes VI, a Cappadocian prince, as ruler of Armenia. For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Caucasus", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 59 AD › Caucasus"}}, {"year": 62, "year_label": "62 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo strengthens the fortifications on the Euphrates frontier. He builds a strong flotilla of ships equipped with catapults and a wooden bridge across the river, which allows him to establish a foothold on the Parthian shore.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561412#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 62", "revid": 1363561412, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 63, "year_label": "63 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is restored to command after the Roman debacle at the Battle of Rhandeia. He invades Armenia and defeats Tiridates I, who accepts Roman sovereignty. Parthia withdraws from the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330182489#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 63", "revid": 1330182489, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 67, "year_label": "67 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Nero, jealous of the success of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in Armenia, orders that he be put to death. Corbulo literally \"falls on his sword\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185877#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 67", "revid": 1371185877, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 67, "year_label": "67 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general (b. c. AD 7)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185877#Deaths", "title": "AD 67", "revid": 1371185877, "section": "Deaths"}}]}