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Valerian (emperor)

Roman emperor

10 dated entries naming Valerian (emperor), drawn from 8 separate years between 200 CE and 262 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

  • 200Valerian I, Roman emperor (d. 260/264)source

3rd century

  • 238Future Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.source
  • 253Valerian reforms Legio III Augusta to fight the "five peoples", a dangerous coalition of Berber tribes in Africa.source
  • 253Aemilianus is murdered at Spoletium and Publius Valerianus, age 60, is recognised as the new emperor by the Rhine legions. He gives his son Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus the title Augustus. Valerianus I dispatches him to the Danube where the Goths have violated the treaty signed with Rome and invaded Moesia.source
  • 256Emperor Valerian persecutes Christians.source
  • 258Valerian II, eldest son of Gallienus, dies, possibly murdered by Pannonia's governor Ingenuus; Emperor Valerian bestows on another one of Gallienus's sons, Saloninus, the title of Caesar.source
  • 259Emperor Valerian leads an army (70,000 men) to relieve Edessa, besieged by the forces of Persian King Shapur I. An outbreak of a plague kills many legionaries, weakening the Roman position in Syria.source
  • 260Battle of Edessa: With a large army, said to number 70,000 men, Valerian attempts to drive the Persians back from Edessa. The Roman army is surrounded and most of its troops are killed or captured. Valerian is taken prisoner for the remainder of his life.source
  • 260Valerianus I, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)source
  • 262Valerian, Roman consul and emperor (approximate date)source

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