Modern replica of an ancient bust in the Capitoline Museums[1]
Roman emperor
Reign
28 March – 2 June 193
Predecessor
Pertinax
Successor
Septimius Severus
Born
29 January 133 Mediolanum, Italy
Died
2 June 193 (aged 60) Rome, Italy
Spouse
Manlia Scantilla
Issue
Didia Clara
Names
Marcus Didius Julianus
Regnal name
Imperator Caesar Marcus Didius Severus Julianus Augustus[2][3]
Father
Quintus Petronius Didius Severus
Mother
Aemilia Clara
Roman imperial dynasties
Year of the Five Emperors (AD 193)
Chronology
Pertinax
193
Didius Julianus
193
Pescennius Niger
193
Clodius Albinus
193
Septimius Severus
193–211
Succession
Preceded by Nerva–Antonine dynasty
Followed by Severan dynasty
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Marcus Didius Julianus (/ˈdɪdiəs/; 29 January 133 – 2 June 193)[4] was Roman emperor from March to June 193, during the Year of the Five Emperors. Julianus had a promising political career, governing several provinces, including Dalmatia and Germania Inferior, and defeated the Chauci and Chatti, two invading Germanic tribes. He was even appointed to the consulship in 175 along with Pertinax as a reward, before being demoted by Commodus. After this demotion, his early, promising political career languished.
Julianus ascended the throne after buying it from the Praetorian Guard, who had assassinated his predecessor Pertinax. A civil war ensued in which three rival generals laid claim to the imperial throne. Septimius Severus, commander of the legions in Pannonia and the nearest of the generals to Rome, marched on the capital, gathering support along the way and routing cohorts of the Praetorian Guard Julianus sent to meet him. Abandoned by the Senate and the Praetorian Guard, Julianus was killed by a soldier in the palace and succeeded by Severus.
^"A Roman marble portrait bust of Emperor Didius Julianus". Christie's.
^Hammond, p. 33. "His Life says he took Severus on his accession".
^Wotawa, col. 412.
^Cassius Dio, lxxiv, 17.5: "He had lived sixty years, four months, and the same number of days, out of which he had reigned sixty-six days." Dio's calculations can also give 28 January and 1 June by using inclusive counting.
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193, in which five men claimed the title of Roman emperor: Pertinax, DidiusJulianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus. This year...
throne in response to the murder of Pertinax and the elevation of DidiusJulianus, but was defeated by a rival claimant, Septimius Severus, and killed...
imperial position, which senator DidiusJulianus won and became the new emperor.[citation needed] Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman...
imperial power. The year opened with the brief reigns of Pertinax and DidiusJulianus, before erupting to a full-scale war between the generals Pescennius...
the Five Emperors. After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor DidiusJulianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the Roman generals Pescennius...
DidiusJulianus and Empress Manlia Scantilla. She was born and raised in Rome. Little is known about her personality or life. After DidiusJulianus purchased...
was the wealthy senator DidiusJulianus, whose reign would end mere weeks later with his assassination on 1 June 193. Julianus was succeeded by Septimius...
who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus DidiusJulianus the highest bidder, offers 300 million sesterces for the throne. Roman...
sons were: Didius Proculus, married, his son was betrothed to his niece Didia Clara. Didius Nummius Albinus Marcus Didius Severus Julianus, 137 AD, best...
other prominent consulars and senators. DidiusJulianus, the future emperor and a relative of Salvius Julianus, was dismissed from the governorship of...
ancestry. Manlia Scantilla married the senator DidiusJulianus before his succession. Around 153, she bore Julianus a daughter and only child, Didia Clara, who...
Emperors ensued. After the quick successive removals of Pertinax and DidiusJulianus from power, this period had the general-turned-emperor Septimius Severus...
193. Didius Q. f. Q. n. Proculus, brother of the emperor DidiusJulianus. Didius Q. f. Q. n. Nummius Albinus, brother of the emperor DidiusJulianus. Didia...
arranged the murder, "sold" the imperial throne to wealthy senator DidiusJulianus, effectively crowning him emperor. A string of mutinies by the troops...
custom of the donativum was the Guard's auctioning of the empire to DidiusJulianus in 193. Congiarium Pay (Roman army) SHA, Hadr. 5.7. SHA, Hadr. 23.12;...
positions during the reigns of emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus and DidiusJulianus, which included suffect consul and Urban prefect of Rome. Repentinus...
already been paid. The Praetorians then put the empire up to auction and DidiusJulianus bought the title of emperor. However, the armies of the Danube chose...
110 – c. 170), generally referred to as Salvius Julianus, or Julian the Jurist, or simply Julianus, was a well known and respected jurist, public official...
year) to Yongxing of the Chinese Han Dynasty. Didia Clara, daughter of DidiusJulianus Kong Rong, Chinese official and warlord (d. 208) Zhang Hong, Chinese...
known as the Year of the Five Emperors, during which Helvius Pertinax, DidiusJulianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus held the imperial...
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193 AD. He was appointed by DidiusJulianus, who had just bought the throne from the Guard. Even in the face of Julianus' rapidly deteriorating political...
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