Cassius Dio
Greco-Roman statesman and historian (c. 155–c. 235)
7 dated entries naming Cassius Dio, drawn from 7 separate years between 133 CE and 229 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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2nd century
- 133January 30 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (according to Cassius Dio) (d. 193)source
- 150Cassius Dio, Roman historian (approximate year)source
- 155Dio Cassius, Roman historian (d. c. 235)source
- 180Cassius Dio arrives in Rome and becomes a Senatorsource
- 195Clodius 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.source
3rd century
- 221July – Elagabalus is forced to divorce Aquilia Severa, and marries his third wife Annia Faustina. After five months he returns to Severa, and claims that the original divorce is invalid. The marriage is symbolic, because Elagabalus appears to be homosexual or bisexual. According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.source
- 229Emperor Alexander Severus and Dio Cassius are joint Consuls.source
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