Didius Julianus
c. 133 CE–c. 193 CE · Milan
Roman senator who became emperor in 193 CE after offering the highest bid to the Praetorian Guard, which had auctioned the throne following the murder of Pertinax during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors. His reign lasted only about nine weeks (roughly 66 days) before the Senate turned against him, condemning him to death and recognizing his rival Septimius Severus, who was marching on Rome. He was killed by a soldier in the imperial palace on 2 June 193 CE.
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Milan is a northern Italian city that served as the western capital of the Roman Empire and became a pivotal center of early Christianity through its influential bishopric.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Didius Julianus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Claudius Ptolemaeus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Xenophon of Ephesus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Adrianus of Tyre· 115 CE–193 CE
- Maximus of Tyre· 115 CE–185 CE
- Numenius of Apamea· 115 CE–185 CE
- Harpocration· 115 CE–180 CE
- Dionysius of Byzantium· 115 CE–180 CE
- Aelius Herodianus· 115 CE–180 CE
- Artemidorus· 115 CE–180 CE
- Apollonius Dyscolus· 115 CE–175 CE
- Aelius Aristides· 117 CE–181 CE
- Vettius Valens· 120 CE–175 CE
- Marcus Aurelius· 121 CE–180 CE
- Apuleius· 124 CE–170 CE
- Lucian of Samosata· 125 CE–180 CE
- Aulus Gellius· 125 CE–180 CE
- Pertinax· 126 CE–193 CE
- Galen· 129 CE–216 CE
- Lucius Verus· 130 CE–169 CE
- Julius Pollux· 135 CE–192 CE
- Oppian· 140 CE–190 CE
- Septimius Severus· 145 CE–211 CE
- Sextus Empiricus· 160 CE–210 CE
- Commodus· 161 CE–192 CE
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