* 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior ( Netherlands ) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.

His kinsman Gaius Julius Civilis was paraded in chains in Rome before Nero ; though he was acquitted by Galba, he was retained at Rome, and when he returned to his kin in the year of upheaval in the Roman Empire, 69, he headed a Batavian rebellion.

The Conspiracy of Gaius Julius Civilis ( detail ), by Rembrandt ( 1661 ).

Batavian auxiliaries of the Rhine legions, led by Gaius Julius Civilis, had rebelled with the aid of a faction of Treveri under the command of Julius Classicus.

* August 1 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior ( Netherlands ) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.

* Julius Civilis, leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans

* Gaius Julius Civilis, German chieftain

Later, Quintus Petillius Cerialis puts down the Batavian rebellion of Gaius Julius Civilis.

* Vespasian disbanded four Rhine legions ( I Germanica, IIII Macedonica, XV Primigenia and XVI Gallica ), disgraced for having surrendered or lost their eagles during the revolt of Julius Civilis.

A detail from The Conspiracy of Julius Civilis, completed in 1661 by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn | Rembrandt.

It depicts a Batavians | Batavian oath to Gaius Julius Civilis, the head of the Batavian rebellion against the ancient Rome | Romans in 69.

Gaius Julius Civilis was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69.

Hordeonius Flaccus was murdered by his troops ( 70 ), and the whole of the Roman forces were induced by two commanders of the Gallic auxiliaries — Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor — to revolt from Rome and join Civilis.

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* Claudius Civilis, also known as Gaius Julius Civilis, a leader of the Batavi, who led the Batavian revolt in AD.

In essence the tribes along the Rhine believed that the Roman empire was finished and decided to set up a rump state in Gaul ruled from Triers by Gaius Julius Civilis.

Under the leadership of their hereditary prince Gaius Julius Civilis, an auxiliary officer in the Roman army, the Batavi managed to destroy two legions and inflict humiliating defeats on the Roman army.

When Julius Caesar suffered an accident during his triumph, clearly indicating the wrath of Jupiter for his actions in the Civil Wars, he approached the hill and Jupiter's temple on his knees as a way of averting the unlucky omen ( nevertheless he was murdered six months later, and Brutus and his other assassins locked themselves inside the temple afterward ).

* a colossal statue of Julius Caesar, veiled as Pontifex Maximus, with a star on his head and bearing the lituus augural staff in his right hand ; when the doors of the temple were left open, it was possible to clearly see the statue from the Roman Forum main square.

Two days after Julius Rosenberg's arrest on 17 July 1950, the FBI interviewed Sarant but did not arrest him, although it possessed decrypted KGB cables that clearly identified Sarant as a member of the Rosenberg ring.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

Octavian's prestige and, more importantly, the loyalty of his legions, had been initially boosted by Julius Caesar's legacy of 44 BC, by which the then nineteen-year-old Octavian had been officially adopted as the only son of the great Roman general and also established as the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth.

Octavian ( Julius Caesar's 18-year old adopted son and heir ), and Cleopatra of Egypt ( Joseph M. Horodyski, Military Heritage, August 2005, Volume 7, No. 1, pp 58 to 63, and p. 78 ), ISSN 1524-8666.

Guidobaldo da Montefeltro adopted Francesco Maria I della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II.

The name derived from Julius Caesar's cognomen " Caesar ": this cognomen was adopted by all Roman emperors, exclusively by the ruling monarch after the Julio-Claudian dynasty had died out.

In 46 BC Julius Caesar instigated calendar reform and adopted a calendar based upon the

Thus ( Gaius ) Julius Caesar adopted his sister's grandson, Gaius Octavius, who became a Julius, eventually named Imperator Caesar Augustus, normally called in English Augustus, the founder of the Empire.

Thus, on the death of Tiberius, his adopted son, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, ascended to the throne.

# Augustus was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar and his posthumously adopted son.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

Julius shaved his beard again before his death, and his immediate successors were clean-shaven ; however, Pope Clement VII again adopted the beard as a sign of mourning after the 1527 sack of Rome.

Around the time of Jesus, the title divi filius ( son of the divine one ) was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus ( as adopted son of Julius Caesar ).

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.

Kaunda adopted an ideology of African socialism, close to that of Julius Nyerere in Tanzania.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

Both brothers adopted French forms of their names, Julius becoming Jules and Jacob becoming Jacques.

Most threatening to Octavian ( whose claim to power was based on his status as Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son ), Antony declared Caesarion to be Caesar's true son and heir.

Julius Friedländer, the founder of an international music publishing house then adopted Georg and endowed him with a large fortune enabling him to become a scholar.

He was born between 14 August and 13 September 20 BC or according to other sources in 23 September 20 BC with the name Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Augustus, his name was changed to Gaius Julius Caesar.

Strauss ' closest friend was Jacob Klein but he also was intellectually engaged with Karl Löwith, Julius Guttman, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Rosenzweig ( to whom Strauss dedicated his first book ), Gershom Scholem, Alexander Altmann, and the Arabist Paul Kraus, who married Strauss ' sister Bettina ( Strauss and his wife later adopted their child when both parents died in the Middle East ).

It was a title held with great pride: Pompey was hailed imperator more than once, as was Sulla, but it was Julius Caesar who first used it permanently-according to Dio, this was a singular and excessive form of flattery granted by the Senate, passed to Caesar's adopted heir along with his name and virtually synonymous with it.

In this sense Suetonius wrote of The Twelve Caesars, meaning the emperors from Julius Caesar to the Flavians included ( where, after Nero, the inherited name had turned into a title ), and emperors adopted themselves into an Imperial lineage.