He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.

He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.

One was a praetor under Emperor Tiberius ’ reign and the other, his son, was a general.

Claudius ( Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54 ) was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54.

Tiberius, the new Emperor, responded by granting Claudius consular ornaments.

Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most beloved public figures.

After he became Emperor, Caligula claimed to have planned to kill Tiberius with a dagger in order to avenge his mother and brother: however, having brought the weapon into Tiberius's bedroom he did not kill the Emperor but instead threw the dagger down on the floor.

In AD 33, Tiberius gave Caligula an honorary quaestorship, a position he held until his rise to Emperor.

The following day Domitian was declared Emperor by the Praetorian Guard, commencing a reign which lasted fifteen years – longer than any man who had ruled since Tiberius.

* 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration.

The premiere could not be arranged in time, however, so the opera The Marriage of Figaro was substituted on the express orders of the bride's uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.

During the Samaritan revolt of 529, Bethlehem was sacked and its walls and the Church of the Nativity destroyed, but they were rebuilt on the orders of the Emperor Justinian I.

Rather than continue his campaign, Vespasian decided to await further orders and send Titus to greet the new Emperor.

The Emperor Menelik II responded to their protests with disdain, and later used the telephone to give orders to his provincial governors.

The royal couple, on separate ships due to their disagreements, were first attacked in May by Byzantine ships attempting to capture both ( in order to take them to Byzantium, according to the orders of the Emperor ).

* 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.

* 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.

His death aroused much speculation, with several sources blaming Piso, acting under orders from Emperor Tiberius.

* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

* 304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.

Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman Emperor Tiberius.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan gave orders in 1631 to Qasim Khan, the Mughal viceroy of Bengal, to drive out the Portuguese from their trading post at Port Hoogly, the trading post was heavily armed with cannons, battleships, fortified walls, and other instruments of war.

* Emperor Theodosius II gives orders to destroy the buildings and pagan temples at Olympia ( Greece ).

* Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty orders the capital to be transferred from Chang ' an to Luoyang, and orders the Grand Canal to be built.

* Emperor Antoninus Pius orders the construction of the Antonine Wall.

* July 17 – Irene of Athens orders her son, Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI, captured and deposed.

Emperor Theodosius I orders vengeance, despite the pleas of Ambrose, bishop of Milan, for mercy, and more than 7, 000 inhabitants are massacred by the Roman army.

* The Emperor of Japan orders Abe no Hirafu to escort Buyeo Pung to Baekje, where he is made to take up the succession to the dignity.

* February 23 – Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.

In the following months Boleslav's brothers Jaromir and Oldrich flee to Germany and place themselves under the protection of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, while Boleslaus III of Bohemia orders massacre of his leading nobles at Vyšehrad.

* The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu ( 1, 390 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) of land for planting mulberry and jujube trees.

Therefore, Emperor Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.

Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.

The governor became responsible for his decisions first to his immediate superiors, as well as to the more distant office of the Emperor.

Almost simultaneously the Senate had declared Galba, then governor of Hispania Tarraconensis ( modern Spain ), as Emperor of Rome.

After securely establishing this position as his mistress, she divorced Otho and had the Emperor send him away as governor to the remote province of Lusitania ( which is now parts of both modern Portugal and Extremadura, Spain ).

When in 68 his neighbor the future Emperor Galba, the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, rose in revolt against Nero, Otho accompanied him to Rome.

A later tradition holds that in the reign of Emperor Hadrian, Alexander I converted the Roman governor Hermes by miraculous means, together with his entire household of 1, 500 souls.

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).

* Emperor Trajan sends Pliny the Younger as governor ( legatus Augusti ) to Bithynia.

Following the conquests of Belisarius for the Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century, Ravenna became the seat of the Byzantine governor of Italy, the Exarch, and was known as the Exarchate of Ravenna.

The colony was divided into the six governorates of Italian East Africa: Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, plus four provinces of Ethiopia ( Amhara, Galla-Sidamo, Scioa, Harar ) each under the authority of an Italian governor, answerable to the Italian viceroy, who represented the Emperor Victor Emmanuel.

It depicts a man who is about 50 years old, possibly a family member, or possibly the Emperor Pertinax when he was governor of the province of Britannia.

Li Yuan ( later to become Emperor Gaozu of Tang, r. 618 – 626 ) was the Duke of Tang and former governor of Taiyuan when other government officials were fighting off bandit leaders in the collapse of the Sui Empire, caused in part by a failed Korean campaign.

In 188, Emperor Ling accepted a memorial from Yi Province governor Liu Yan suggesting he grant direct administrative power over feudal provinces and direct command of regional military to local governors, as well promoting them in rank and filling such positions with members of the Liu family or court officials.

* Postumus, governor of Gaul, declares himself Emperor and continues to rule the Gallic Empire until 269 when he was killed by his soldiers.

* Battle of Issus: Emperor Septimius Severus marches with his army ( 12 legions ) to Cilicia and defeats Pescennius Niger, governor of Syria.

His sister Anne was married to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Ferdinand I.

Skopje surrendered shortly after the battle ; its governor, Romanos, was treated with overt kindness by the Emperor.

Louis II was made the King of Bavaria from 817 following the Emperor Charlemagne's practice of bestowing a local kingdom on a family member who then served as one of his lieutenants and the local governor.

The territories were not annexed by any state of the Empire or organised into a separate state, but were governed as the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen under a governor directly appointed by the German Emperor, without any parliamentary representation.

Almost simultaneously, the Roman Senate had declared Galba, then governor of Hispania, as Emperor of Rome.

The titles " Duke " and " Count " were similarly distinguished as ranks in the late empire, with dux ( literally, " leader ") being used for a provincial military governor and the rank of comes ( literally " companion ," that is, of the Emperor ) given to the leader of an active army along the frontier.

Khan Jahan, governor of the Punjab, received orders from Emperor Akbar to invade Badakhshan, but was suddenly ordered to go to Bengal instead, as Mun ' im Khan had died and Mirza Sulaiman did not care for the governorship of Bengal, which Akbar had offered him.

He was appointed the military governor of the Anatolikon Theme in 945 under Emperor Constantine VII.

Unlike some of his immediate imperial predecessors such as Philip the Arab or Maximinus who did not have extensive administrative experience before assuming the throne, Decius was a distinguished senator who had served as consul in 232, had been governor of Moesia and Germania Inferior soon afterwards, served as governor of Hispania Tarraconensis between 235 – 238, and was urban prefect of Rome during the early reign of Emperor Philip the Arab ( Marcus Iulius Phillipus ).