The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

* 217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated ( and succeeded ) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

Augustus, the first Emperor ( r. 27 BC – AD 14 ), had nominally shared power with his colleagues, and more formal offices of co-Emperor had existed from Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161 – 80 ) on.

The philosophy of Epictetus was an influence on the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( 121 to 180 AD ) whose reign was marked by wars with the resurgent Parthians in southern Asia and against the Germanic tribes in Europe.

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

In his time, Galen's reputation as both physician and philosopher was legendary, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius describing him as " Primum sane medicorum esse, philosophorum autem solum " ( first among doctors and unique among philosophers Praen 14: 660 ).

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote praising " the idea of a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ".

During the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of Lyons.

* 133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor ( d. 193 )

According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortress of Carnuntum in Pannonia.

The Emperor Hadrian patronized the young Marcus, and may have planned to make him his long-term successor.

In 127, at the age of six, Marcus was enrolled in the equestrian order on the recommendation of Emperor Hadrian.

* 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.

* 30 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor ( d. 98 )

* 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

* 64 BC – Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general and brother of Emperor Augustus ( d. 12 BC )

* 275 – In Rome, ( after the assassination of Aurelian ), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.

Later accounts also speak of a Gallic persecution, especially at Lyons, under Severus, but historians, based on archaeological and literary evidence, generally consider these events actually to have taken place under Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

* Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

* Emperor Nero marries for the second time, to Poppaea Sabina, ex-wife of Marcus Salvius Otho.

* Emperor Vespasian and Marcus Cocceius Nerva are Roman Consuls.

The Urban Prefect Aurelius Anicius Symmachus warned both parties to keep the peace, and wrote to the Emperor Honorius that Eulalius, who had been elected first and in due order, was in the right.

* Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

* Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

* April 26 – Marcus Annius Verus, later the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( d. 180 )

* February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopts Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

* Emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar become Roman Consuls.

* Marcus Aurelius receives imperial powers from the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.

* Marcus Aurelius Numerian, Roman Emperor

* Emperor Septimius Severus has the Senate deify Commodus in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius.

* Emperor Marcus Aurelius appoints his sons as Caesars, while he and Lucius Verus travel to Germany.

* Marcus Aurelius Carus, Roman Emperor ( d. 283 )

* March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.

* Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his stepbrother Lucius Verus leave Rome, and establish their headquarters at Aquileia.

Herein he writes that the tribal confederation of the Getae were defeated by the Persian Emperor Darius the Great during his campaign against the Scythians.

* December 31 – Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.

* The highly cultivated emperor of China, Emperor Huizong of Song, writes his Treatise on Tea.

* Anna Comnena writes the Alexiad, which is a biography of her father, Emperor Alexius I.

In 822, the Serbs are mentioned as " inhabiting the larger part of Dalmatia " ( Serbian lands ), and Emperor Constantine VII ( r. 913 – 959 ) writes in his work " De Administrando Imperio " about the Serbs, mentioning the White Serbs that " migrated from Βοϊκι " and formed a principality, as well as an early chronological list of Serbian monarchs starting from the 7th century.

Emperor Constantine VII ( r. 913 – 959 ) writes in his work " De Administrando Imperio " about the Serbs, mentioning the White Serbs that " migrated from Βοϊκι " and formed a principality, as well as an early chronological list of Serbian monarchs starting from the 7th century.

* 1717-Chen Mao writes to the Chinese Emperor about his concerns over Catholic missionaries and Western traders.

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

" In his 13th chapter, " Genealogical Table of the Three Ages ," Sima Qian writes, " I have read all the genealogies of the kings ( dieji 谍记 ) that exist since the time of the Yellow Emperor.

" At Beauty the Emperor remained several days and the King would visit each day and in secret parley at length " writes Christine of Pisan.

Traditionally, every Chinese household would have a paper effigy or a plaque of Zao Jun and his wife ( who writes down everything that is said in the household over the year for her husband's report to Jade Emperor ) above the fireplace in the kitchen.

Byzantine documents normally refer to Sabirs as Sabiroi, although the Byzantine Emperor Constantinos Porphyrogenetos ( Constantine VII, 908-959 ) writes in his Administrando imperio that he was told by a Hungarian delegation visiting his court in the 10th century that the Tourkoi ( the Byzantine name for Magyars ) used to be called “ sabartoi asphaloi ”, generally considered to mean “ strong / firm / reliable Sabirs ”, and still regularly sent delegations to those who stayed behind in the Caucasus region near Persia.

Suetonius in Chapter 68 of his Life of Augustus writes that Lucius Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony accused the Emperor Augustus for having " given himself to Aulus Hirtius in Spain for three hundred thousand sesterces.

But when he realises that the Emperor is not up to the task, he writes to his fellow humanist Konrad Peutinger in Augsburg in 1504 that the role of Emperor could equally well be carried out by another people if the Germans were incapable of fulfilling the role that history had given them.

He writes in the book that he saw himself in a desert “ with miles of sand all around ,’ and there stood five men, namely, Emperor Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and Caliph Omar.

Based on Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he writes that Emperor Maximinus Thrax ( 235 AD-238 AD ) was the son of a Goth who arrived at this time and an Alan woman.

Some Christ Myth supporters point out that in Philo's Embassy to Gaius ( c. 40 CE ), in addition to claiming that he was part of an embassy sent by the Alexandrian Jews to Emperor Caligula regarding his plans to erect a statue of himself in the temple of Jerusalem ( showing that he and other Alexandrians were aware of major events in both Rome and Jerusalem ), he writes about the cruel and poor leadership of Pontius Pilate for a full chapter and yet there is not one mention of Jesus.

In response, " the arrogant Matthias writes to the Pope, the Emperor and other kings and princes, telling them that he has defeated a large Turkish army with his own forces under the Voivode of Wallachia.