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Marcus Aurelius

16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher

38 dated entries naming Marcus Aurelius, drawn from 35 separate years between 19 CE and 212 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

  • 19Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ends the threat to the Romans from Germanic tribes until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Rome places them under its protection.source

2nd century

  • 121April 26 – Marcus Annius Verus, later Emperor Marcus Aurelius (d. 180)source
  • 123Annia Cornificia Faustina, sister of Marcus Aurelius (d. 158)source
  • 124Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aureliussource
  • 138February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.source
  • 139Marcus Aurelius is named Caesar. He marries the 9-year-old Faustina the Younger, daughter of Antoninus Pius.source
  • 140Emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar become Roman Consuls.source
  • 145Antoninus Augustus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar become Roman Consuls.source
  • 146Marcus Aurelius receives the imperium proconsular.source
  • 147Marcus Aurelius receives imperial powers, from Emperor Antoninus Pius.source
  • 147Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius (approximate date)source
  • 151Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aureliussource
  • 159Annia Aurelia Fadilla, daughter of Marcus Aureliussource
  • 160Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor, daughter of Marcus Aurelius (d. 212)source
  • 161March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies, and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius, who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.source
  • 162Marcus Annius Verus Caesar, one of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius's thirteen children (d. 169)source
  • 164Emperor Marcus Aurelius gives his daughter Lucilla in marriage to his co-emperor Lucius Verus.source
  • 165Legio II Italica is levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius.source
  • 166Emperor Marcus Aurelius appoints his sons Commodus and Marcus Annius Verus as co-rulers (Caesar), while he and Lucius Verus travel to Germany.source
  • 167The Marcomanni tribe wages war against the Romans at Aquileia. They destroy aqueducts and irrigation conduits. Marcus Aurelius repels the invaders, ending the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) that has kept the Roman Empire free of conflict since the days of Emperor Augustus.source
  • 168Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his adopted brother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia.source
  • 169Marcus Aurelius becomes sole Roman Emperor upon the death of Lucius Verus.source
  • 170Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium (Pannonia) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek.source
  • 171Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the praetentura Italiae et Alpium. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory.source
  • 172Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force. He subdues the Marcomanni and their allies and then, in a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into the Roman Empire to occupy areas that have been depopulated by the plague.source
  • 174Marcus Aurelius officially confers the title Fulminata ("Thundering") to the Legio XII Fulminata.source
  • 174Empress Faustina the Younger accompanies her husband, Marcus Aurelius, on various military campaigns and enjoys the love of the Roman soldiers. Aurelius gives her the title of Mater Castrorum ("Mother of the Camp").source
  • 175Marcus Aurelius suppresses a revolt of Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, after the latter proclaims himself emperor.source
  • 176November 27 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator, and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.source
  • 178Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus arrive at Carnuntum in Pannonia, and travel to the Danube to fight against the Marcomanni.source
  • 179Marcus Aurelius drives the Marcomanni over the Danube and reinforces the border. To repopulate and rebuild a devastated Pannonia, Rome allows the first German colonists to enter territory controlled by the Roman Empire.source
  • 180March 17 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies after a week's illness at his camp in Vindobona (modern Vienna). He is succeeded by his son Commodus (age 18).source
  • 180March 17 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121)source
  • 182Lucilla, Roman empress and daughter of Marcus Aureliussource
  • 193The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 50 percent under emperor Septimius Severus, down from 68 percent under Marcus Aurelius.source
  • 195Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius.source
  • 197Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius.source

3rd century

  • 212Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor, daughter of Marcus Aurelius (b. 160)source

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