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Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 3-1-180
Event Description: Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius chooses Claudius Pompeianus, his son-in-law, as well as his son Commodus, to be co-emperors, instead of Commodus alone.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 12-1-180
Event Description: Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies and is succeeded by Claudius Pompeianus and Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus. A power struggle develops.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 1-7-181
Event Description: Claudius Pompeianus is found stabbed to death in a botched attempt to pass off murder as suicide. The Senate votes to depose Commodus, but he dissolves it.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 8-11-181
Event Description: A Roman officer named Septimus Severus stages a revolt, rallying many legions to his side.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 2-5-182
Event Description: The Battle of Padua results in the combined forces of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus defeating Emperor Commodus and killing him in battle. They become co-emperors.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 2-11-182
Event Description: Fearing that Severus will eliminate him like Commodus did with Claudius Pompeianus, Clodius Albinus has spies planted in Severus's camp.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 2-17-182
Event Description: The spies report back that Severus is indeed plotting against Albinus.
This prompts Albinus to ambush him.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 2-25-182
Event Description: Severus is ambushed by Albinus's Gallic cavalry while hunting stag.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 2-28-182
Event Description: Albinus informs the Senate that he was simply pre-empting a conspiracy by Severus.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 3-3-182
Event Description: The month November is renamed Clodia (the gens, or family name of Marcus Clodius Albinus Caesar).
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 4-5-182
Event Description: Emperor Clodius Albinus marries the dowager Empress Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla- daughter to one emperor, sister to a 2nd, and widow of a 3rd.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 4-27-182
Event Description: The Emperor bans Christianity because of its supposed complicity in the death of Marcus Aurelius and its support for Commodus. He also outlaws the Athenian comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, saying that it "instills mischief in the minds of our women".
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 7-1-182
Event Description: The Treaty of Carchemish formally fixes the Roman-Persian border at the Euphrates River. Attending are Publius Helvius Pertinax, the Emperor's newly appointed praetorian prefect of the East, and Ardashir, the new Parthian satrap of Mesopotamia.
Timeline Number: 655
Event Date: 1-1-183
Event Description: Decimus Meridius Maximus, one of the best and most popular generals in the Roman military, decides to revolt against Emperor Clodius Albinus after after certain members of the Senate bring him evidence of his secret aid in Commodus assassinating his father and then Co-Emperor later on. Due to his strong patriotism to Rome and the fact that Marcus Aurelius was like a father to him, declares that Clodius Albinus is not the rightful Emperor and declares his intention to march on Rome to save the empire from the usurper. Throughout the empire, the Legions refuse to come to the Emperor's aid as their respect for Maximus has led them to develop a strong sense of Roman patriotism as well, thus they are unable to defend an Emperor who helped Commodus to murder Marcus Aurelius and then later betrayed Commodus to become Emperor himself. Maximus leads an army of four Legions towards Rome. At the time of his arrival, Clodius Albinus is already dead, killed by the Praetorian Guards. However, Maximus arrests the entire Praetorian Guard after learning that they not only killed the false Emperor, but committed genocide by killing all of Clodius' male relatives and allies, and raped the beautiful woung women in his family as well. The officers and the rapists in the Guard were executed for extreme brutality and the rest of the Guard was disbanded in disgrace. Maximus re-created the Praetorian Guard with the members of the Felix Legion; his best soldiers and the best and most loyal warriors to Rome. After being hailed as a saviour of the empire in Rome, Maximus meets with the Senate in an emergency session. Maximus turned down the Senate's offer to make him Emperor and instead supported the elevation of Senator Gaius Domitius Nepos. Once Domitius was declared Emperor and the situation in Rome had returned to normal, Maximus returned to the northern frontier to lead the Legions in the north on a campaign to conquer Germania. Quintus Cornelius Cinna, Maximus' best friend and recently promoted as general, was tasked with securing Dacia as part of the empire and then later attacking north into the heart of Germania while Maximus and his army pushed into Germania from the west.
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