{"slug": "valerian-emperor", "label": "Valerian (emperor)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_%28emperor%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46750", "qid": "Q46750", "description": "Roman emperor", "entries": 10, "years": 8, "span": [200, 262], "span_label": ["200 CE", "262 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "gallienus", "label": "Gallienus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bubonic-plague", "label": "Bubonic plague", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edessa-mesopotamia", "label": "Edessa, Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shapur-i", "label": "Shapur I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-legionary", "label": "Roman legionary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moesia", "label": "Moesia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus-title", "label": "Augustus (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spoleto", "label": "Spoleto", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caesar-title", "label": "Caesar (title)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 200, "year_label": "200 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Valerian I, Roman emperor (d. 260/264)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371377327#Births", "title": "AD 200", "revid": 1371377327, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 238, "year_label": "238 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Future Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371227244#Roman_Empire", "title": "238", "revid": 1371227244, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 253, "year_label": "253 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Valerian reforms Legio III Augusta to fight the \"five peoples\", a dangerous coalition of Berber tribes in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188254#Roman_Empire", "title": "253", "revid": 1371188254, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 253, "year_label": "253 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium and Publius Valerianus, age 60, is recognised as the new emperor by the Rhine legions. He gives his son Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus the title Augustus. Valerianus I dispatches him to the Danube where the Goths have violated the treaty signed with Rome and invaded Moesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188254#Roman_Empire", "title": "253", "revid": 1371188254, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 256, "year_label": "256 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Valerian persecutes Christians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188385#Religion", "title": "256", "revid": 1371188385, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 258, "year_label": "258 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Valerian II, eldest son of Gallienus, dies, possibly murdered by Pannonia's governor Ingenuus; Emperor Valerian bestows on another one of Gallienus's sons, Saloninus, the title of Caesar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368343947#Roman_Empire", "title": "258", "revid": 1368343947, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 259, "year_label": "259 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Valerian leads an army (70,000 men) to relieve Edessa, besieged by the forces of Persian King Shapur I. An outbreak of a plague kills many legionaries, weakening the Roman position in Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331138913#Roman_Empire", "title": "259", "revid": 1331138913, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 260, "year_label": "260 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Edessa: With a large army, said to number 70,000 men, Valerian attempts to drive the Persians back from Edessa. The Roman army is surrounded and most of its troops are killed or captured. Valerian is taken prisoner for the remainder of his life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187251#Roman_Empire", "title": "260", "revid": 1371187251, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 260, "year_label": "260 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Valerianus I, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187251#Deaths", "title": "260", "revid": 1371187251, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 262, "year_label": "262 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Valerian, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325890529#Deaths", "title": "262", "revid": 1325890529, "section": "Deaths"}}]}