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Tacitus

Roman historian and senator (c. 56 – c. 120)

10 dated entries naming Tacitus, drawn from 10 separate years between 56 CE and 385 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

  • 56Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian.source
  • 68Final year that Tacitus records Annals, a written history of the Roman Empire.source
  • 83Possible date of the Battle of Mons Graupius (AD 83 or 84): According to Tacitus, 10,000 Britons and 360 Romans are killed.source
  • 96End of the period covered by Tacitus in his Histories.source
  • 97Tacitus advances to consulship.source
  • 98Tacitus finishes his Germania (approximate date).source

2nd century

  • 108Tacitus writes Histories, which covers the period from AD 69 to AD 96.source
  • 112Tacitus is named proconsul of the Roman province of Asia (112–113).source
  • 117Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian (born AD 56)source

4th century

  • 385Ammianus Marcellinus begins writing a history, in the style of Tacitus, covering the years AD 96–378.source

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