01-19-2011, 09:14 PM
January 15, 588 BC: Start of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. The siege lasts about thirty months until July 23, 586 BC, after which king Zedekiah and his followers are captured on the run near Jericho, blinded and taken to Babylon. The city is razed to the ground.
January 15, 69 AD: Marcus Salvius Otho (28 April 32[1] – 16 April 69) seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor.
Otho had rebelled as governor of Lusitania against Nero in 68, but he was disappointed when Galba adopted Piso. On the morning of January 15, only five days after the adoption, Otho hastily excused himself with Galba on the score of private business hurried from the Palatine Hill to meet his accomplices. They hastened to the Praetorian camp where he was saluted as Imperator (because the guard as well as the army resented the fact that Galba failed to pay them promised gold). With this force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba who was making his way through a dense crowd of citizens. The accompanying cohort instantly deserted him, and Galba, his newly adopted son Piso and others were brutally murdered by the Praetorians.
Otho soon realised he was in over his head when he read through Galba's private correspondence and realized the extent of the revolution in Germany, where several legions had declared for Vitellius. After only three months his army was defeated by the forces of Vitellius near Bedriacum and Otho committed suicide.
January 15, 69 AD: Death of the emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba (b. 24 December 3 BC) after just 7 months of rule.
First emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors, he was governor of his native Hispania Tarraconensis, when in the spring of 68 he was informed of Nero's intention to put him to death. Nero's suicide, he assumed the title of Caesar, and marched straight for Rome, reaching the city in October. His rule was first and foremost concerned with state finances, resulting in his failure to pay his loyal troops and praetorians a promised reward. When on 1 January 69, two legions in Germania Superior refused to swear loyalty to Galba, he adopted L. Calpurnius Piso, which only hastened his downfall at the hands of Otho and the disgruntled Praetorians.
January 15, 69 AD: Marcus Salvius Otho (28 April 32[1] – 16 April 69) seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor.
Otho had rebelled as governor of Lusitania against Nero in 68, but he was disappointed when Galba adopted Piso. On the morning of January 15, only five days after the adoption, Otho hastily excused himself with Galba on the score of private business hurried from the Palatine Hill to meet his accomplices. They hastened to the Praetorian camp where he was saluted as Imperator (because the guard as well as the army resented the fact that Galba failed to pay them promised gold). With this force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba who was making his way through a dense crowd of citizens. The accompanying cohort instantly deserted him, and Galba, his newly adopted son Piso and others were brutally murdered by the Praetorians.
Otho soon realised he was in over his head when he read through Galba's private correspondence and realized the extent of the revolution in Germany, where several legions had declared for Vitellius. After only three months his army was defeated by the forces of Vitellius near Bedriacum and Otho committed suicide.
January 15, 69 AD: Death of the emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba (b. 24 December 3 BC) after just 7 months of rule.
First emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors, he was governor of his native Hispania Tarraconensis, when in the spring of 68 he was informed of Nero's intention to put him to death. Nero's suicide, he assumed the title of Caesar, and marched straight for Rome, reaching the city in October. His rule was first and foremost concerned with state finances, resulting in his failure to pay his loyal troops and praetorians a promised reward. When on 1 January 69, two legions in Germania Superior refused to swear loyalty to Galba, he adopted L. Calpurnius Piso, which only hastened his downfall at the hands of Otho and the disgruntled Praetorians.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
