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Germanicus

nephew and adopted son of emperor Tiberius, heir apparent of the Roman Empire, and father of emperor Caligula

17 dated entries naming Germanicus, drawn from 16 separate years between 15 BCE and 58 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

1st century

  • 4AD 4 – Tiberius also adopts Germanicus as his own heir.source
  • 5AD 5 – Agrippina the Elder marries Germanicus, her second cousin.source
  • 6AD 6 – Nero Julius Caesar, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. AD 30)source
  • 11Germania Inferior and the Rhine are secured by Germanicus.source
  • 14Legions on the Rhine mutiny after the death of Augustus; Germanicus restores discipline amongst the legions.source
  • 15May – As part of his campaign against the Germanic peoples, Germanicus captures Thusnelda, wife of Arminius.source
  • 16A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a great victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius, and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions.source
  • 16September 16 – Julia Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. AD 38)source
  • 17May 26 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other Germanic tribes west of the Elbe.source
  • 18Julia Livilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (approximate date) (d. AD 41)source
  • 19October 10 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)source
  • 20Emperor Tiberius is forced to order an investigation and a public trial in the Roman Senate, for the murder of Germanicus. Fearing he will be found guilty, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso commits suicide.source
  • 30Agrippina the Elder (the wife of Germanicus) and two of her sons, Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, are arrested and exiled on orders of Lucius Aelius Sejanus (the prefect of the Praetorian Guard), and later starved to death in suspicious circumstances. In Sejanus's purge of Agrippina the Elder and her family, her son Caligula, and her three daughters, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla are the only survivors.source
  • 33Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, wife of Germanicus (suicide by starvation; b. 14 BC)source
  • 41Julia Livilla, daughter of Germanicus (starved to death) (b. 18 AD)source
  • 58Corbulo marches to Artaxata crossing the Aras River; along the valley he is shadowed by tens of thousands of mounted Parthian archers led by king Tiridates I. The city opens its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before. When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.source

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