When talking
about famous people born on the same day the first thing you think about is
famous actors or artists, people that live in your own age. However when
looking at history you can go back quite far and discover other things outside
being born on this day, a good example of this would the Roman Emperor Nero, he
both married Claudia Octavia in the year 53 and on the 15th birthday
greeting of that day he committed suicide. Talk about a unfortunate day for
him or her. He was the first Roman Emperor to commit suicide.
Nero was
the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and emperor of Rome from 54 to 68. During
his rule most of Rome was destroyed in the great fire of rime, of which many
Romans believed the emperor himself started the fire.
According
to Tacitus the great fire burned for 6days and burned most of Rome, only 4
districts escaped the fire out of 14. Modern scholars tend to agree with him.
Nero was married
at the age of 15 birthday greetings, he married with Claudia and died by the
age of 30 by suicide, Nero did not last very long. And he will always be remember
as an early prosecutor of Christians.
His famous
last words are Qualis artifex pereo, and upon his death chaos ensued the empire
in the year of the 4emperors, which resulted in Vespasian becoming emperor on December
21 in the year 69. With him as a new emperor the dynasty of nero ended and the
flavian dynasty started wich lasted to 96 when his second son died. The flavian
dynasty never reached 30th belated birthday greetings unlike the previous
dynasty of Nero, the dynasty of nero on the other hand lasted 5 emperors with Nero
as the last of his line and a full 100 belated birthday greetings or century.
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