In 2 BC Augustus exiled Agrippina ’ s mother on the grounds that she had committed adultery, thereby causing a major scandal.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

Agrippina and Augustus had a close relationship.

Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Agrippina had reminded Germanicus on occasion of his relation to Augustus.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.

The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Her great-uncle Tiberius had already become emperor and the head of the family after the death of Augustus in 14.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

At the same time, the subjugated " allied " tribes of Moesia and Thrace evidently repudiated their treaties with Rome, as they had to be re-conquered by Augustus in 29-8 BC ( see below ).

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

Once he had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son Augustus inaugurated a strategy of advancing the empire's southeastern European border to the line of the Danube from the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and Macedonia.

The emperor finally succeeded in concentrating his forces at Valenciennes, although John was out of the picture, and in the interval Philip Augustus had counter marched northward and regrouped.

Philip Augustus had then launched an appeal to the municipalities in northern France, in order to obtain their cooperation.

Carter argues in The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar that Antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run.

While he had never been adopted by Augustus or his successors, he was the grandson of Octavia, and so felt he had the right.

He also adopted the name " Augustus " as the two previous emperors had done at their accessions.

Tiberius and Augustus had both left gifts to the army and guard in their wills, and upon Caligula's death the same would have been expected, even if no will existed.

Augustus had performed the same games less than a century prior.

Barbara Levick notes that Augustus had named his grandson Postumus Agrippa and his stepson Tiberius as joint heirs.

He was forced to rely on second-hand accounts when it came to Claudius ( with the exception of Augustus ' letters which had been gathered earlier ) and does not quote the Emperor.

The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

In the year 9, Augustus ordered and forced Tiberius to adopt Germanicus, who happened to be Tiberius's nephew, as his son and heir.

In 1849, Frederick Augustus was forced to flee to the Königstein Fortress.

After the early deaths of both Lucius ( 2 AD ) and Gaius ( 4 AD ), Augustus was forced to recognize Tiberius as the next Roman emperor.

Nor was the Roman Republic " forced " to give away these powers: it did so freely and reasonably, certainly in Augustus ' case, because of his many services to the state, freeing it from civil wars and disorder.

A Swedish army under Charles XII arrived in Saxony, where he had just finished chastising the Elector Augustus II and forced him to renounce his claims to the Polish throne.

After German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate following the exhaustion and defeat of the German Empire in World War I, monarchic rule ended in Oldenburg as well with the abdication of Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg ( Friedrich August II von Oldenburg ) on 11 November 1918.

During the tense period of time leading up to the final conflict between Mark Antony ( Marcus Antonius ) and Octavian ( future Emperor Augustus ), Antony shared control of the Republic in a triumvirate with Octavian and Lepidus, but Lepidus was forced into retirement by Octavian in 36 BC, leaving Antony and Octavian as rivals.

He spent much of the mid-to-late 1970s, working on a play about portrait artist Augustus John ( famous for a series of portraits of T. E. Lawrence ), but his work on The Bounty, and later his failing health, forced him to abandon it.

Confronted by a local elite that had just killed Maximinus's procurator, Gordian's father was forced to participate in a full scale revolt against Maximinus in 238 and became Augustus on March 22.

Peter the Great seized on this opportunity to pose as mediator, threatened the Commonwealth militarily, and in 1717 forced Augustus and the nobility to sign an accommodation favorable to Russian interests, at the Silent Sejm ( Sejm Niemy ).

Control of the Three Castles was briefly granted to William de Braose in 1205, when Hubert was a prisoner of Philip Augustus, the King of France, but William de Braose quickly fell out of favour, and by 1207 King John had forced him into ruin.

In 1902, for example, the ethnographer Elsdon Best wrote to Augustus Hamilton, the future director of the Colonial Museum, to state that Hector should be forced from office and that they should ‘ put a live man in in his place ’.

He is forced to work for a warlord ( revealed as Pious Augustus in a pre-level cinematic ), helping with the construction of the Pillar of Flesh by surveying the foundations.

However, because Drusus was only related to the Claudian side of the family, rather than both the Julians and Claudians, Augustus forced Tiberius to adopt Germanicus, who was married to Augustus's granddaughter, as his son and heir, removing Drusus from the succession.

When Philip Augustus succeeded Louis in 1180, Hugh seized the opportunity and forced several men to change alliance to Burgundy.

Decimus allegedly boasted of his descent from Augustus, and as a result Roman Emperor Nero forced him to commit suicide.

Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce Vipsania and marry Julia.

He is the only one forced to commit suicide because Augustus could not stand the thought of his daughter and Mark Antony's son together.

John and his heirs frequently insisted on seizing terrae Normannorum, " lands of the Normans ", the English land of those who preferred to be Frenchmen rather than Englishmen when the victories of Philip Augustus forced a proclamation of allegiance.

As of 1702, the rule of primogeniture was instituted in Anhalt-Köthen ; for this reason, Leopold forced his younger brother Augustus Louis to resign his joint rulership.

The need for a pool of men to fill the consular positions forced Augustus to reinvent the suffect consulate, allowing more than the two elected for the ordinary consulate.