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Claudius

fourth Roman emperor (41–54)

29 dated entries naming Claudius, drawn from 26 separate years between 36 BCE and 131 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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1st century BC

  • 36 BCEJanuary 31 – Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, mother of the emperor Claudiussource
  • 10 BCEAugust 1 – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. AD 54)source
  • 5 BCEAemilia Lepida, Roman noblewoman and fiancée of Claudius (d. AD 43)source

1st century

  • 8AD 8 – Vipsania Julia is exiled. Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his family are disgraced. Augustus breaks off the engagement of Claudius to Paullus' daughter Aemilia Lepida. An effort is made to betroth Claudius to Livia Medullina Camilla.source
  • 16Claudius Drusus, son of Claudius and Plautia Urgulanilla (approximate date)source
  • 22Valeria Messalina, third wife of Emperor Claudius (d. 48 AD)source
  • 29Aulus Plautius, later military leader of the invasion of Britain under Emperor Claudius, becomes suffect consul alongside Lucius Nonius Asprenas.source
  • 38Claudius and Messalina are most likely married at this point in time.source
  • 40Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina (d. AD 62)source
  • 41February 12 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, son of Claudius (d. AD 55)source
  • 41January 24 – Claudius succeeds his nephew, Caligula, as emperor.source
  • 42Claudius begins construction of Portus, a harbour bearing a lighthouse on the right bank of the Tiber.source
  • 43September – Emperor Claudius, who arrives with reinforcements including war elephants, leads the march on Camulodunum (modern Colchester). Eleven British kings, probably including those of the Iceni and Brigantes, submit without a fight. Plautius becomes the first Governor of Roman Britain.source
  • 44Emperor Claudius returns from his British campaign in triumph, the south-east part of Britannia now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.source
  • 45Emperor Claudius expels the Jews from Rome (estimated date, more probably later, 47-49 AD).source
  • 47Claudius revives the censorship and ludi saeculares, and organises the order of the Haruspices, with 60 members.source
  • 48Emperor Claudius invests Agrippa II with the office of superintendent of the Temple in Jerusalem.source
  • 48Valeria Messalina, wife of Claudiussource
  • 49Emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina the Younger (approximate date), and most of the real power falls to Agrippina.source
  • 50Roman emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.source
  • 51Emperor Claudius and future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus become Roman Consuls.source
  • 52Emperor Claudius attempts to control the Fucine Lake by digging a 5.6 km tunnel through Monte Salviano, requiring 30,000 workers and eleven years.source
  • 53Emperor Claudius removes Herod Agrippa II from the tetrarchy of Chalcis in Greece.source
  • 54October 13 – Emperor Claudius dies (possibly after being poisoned by Agrippina, his wife and niece), and is succeeded by Nero.source
  • 54October 13 – Claudius, Roman emperor, possibly poisoned by his wife Agrippina (b. 10 BC)source
  • 55February 11 – Britannicus, son of Claudius (b. AD 41)source
  • 66Claudia Antonia, daughter of Claudius (b. AD 30)source
  • 74Caenis, Roman slave and secretary of Antonia Minor (mother of Emperor Claudius) and mistress of Emperor Vespasiansource

2nd century

  • 131Hadrian restores the monarchist policy of Claudius and Domitian. The equestrian order is given full legal status, and attains the second order of the state.source

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