Nero then claimed Agrippina plotted to kill him and committed suicide.

Claudius died around the year AD 54, and his successor, Emperor Nero, allowed the Jews back into Rome, but then, after the Great Fire of Rome of 64, persecuted the Christians.

If, as was common, this was the emperor, citizenship would have been granted between AD 41 and 68 ( when Claudius, and then Nero, were emperors ).

Peter and Paul were then put in prison by Nero while ordering Simon's body be kept carefully for three days ( thinking he would rise again ).

Nero was declared an enemy of the state by the Senate, but then given an enormous funeral honoring him after his death by Vitellius.

* Tiberius Claudius Nero is sent to Armenia, then retires to Rhodes.

His appointment reflects the Roman Senate's dissatisfaction with the cautious strategy of the propraetor, Gaius Claudius Nero, then commander in Spain north of the Ebro.

He then played a demented submarine commander in Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant, and followed this with his best-remembered film role of that year as Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross.

Emperor Nero then appointed Vespasian to put down the rebellion, who landed in Judaea with fifth and tenth legions in 67.

In 49, Claudius ' fourth wife Agrippina the Younger had Seneca recalled to Rome to tutor her son Nero, then 12 years old ; on Claudius ' death in 54, she secured recognition of Nero, rather than Claudius ' son Britannicus, as emperor.

Piso then became a powerful senator during the reign of Emperor Nero and in 65 AD led a secret initiative to replace Emperor Nero that became known as the Pisonian Conspiracy.

From the outset, then, Graves establishes a fatalistic tone that plays out at the end of Claudius the God, as Nero prepares to succeed Claudius.

When her parents married in Rome in 58, then Roman Emperor Nero crowned his parents as monarchs and gave them that region to rule.

The story first appeared in the December 1947 issue of The American Magazine, then in " Three Doors to Death ," a 1950 collection of Nero Wolfe novellas, and finally in 1961's Nero Wolfe omnibus volume, " Five of a Kind.

A letter from Nero was read, mentioning no names but blaming senior senators for neglecting their public duties ; then Capito spoke against Thrasea, and was followed by Eprius Marcellus, whom Tacitus regards as the more effective speaker.

Among Persius's satires were lines that, as Suetonius records, " even lashed Nero himself, who was then the reigning prince.

Nero then married his pregnant mistress Poppaea Sabina, whom he kicked to death for criticizing him.

Factions led by Galba, Otho, and then Vitellius all tried to seize control of Rome after the death of Nero.

* 58 / 63 – Nero orders war then peace with Parthia.

Poppaea then married Otho, a good friend of the new Emperor Nero, who was seven years younger than she was.

He reports that Poppaea married Otho to get close to Nero and then, in turn, became Nero's favorite mistress.

For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.

Nero heard Agrippina survived the wreck so he ordered her to be executed and framed it as a suicide.

Gregory ordered a number of litanies to be said to stem the floods, which spread over the Campus Martius and the so-called Plains of Nero, reaching the foot of the Capitoline Hill.

* Emperor Nero ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general, suicide ordered by Nero

Although it is unlikely that he conspired, he was ordered by Nero to kill himself.

According to it, Nero ordered Seneca's wife to be saved.

* In AD 59, the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger, supposedly because she was conspiring against him.

In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide scorched earth policy, in what became known as the Nero Decree.

Emperor Nero ordered Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, the new legatus of Cappadocia, to manage the matter, and Corbulo brought the IIII Scythica from Moesia, and with III Gallica and VI Ferrata defeated the Parthians, restoring Tigranes VI to the Armenian throne.

According to Tacitus, Nero ordered Christians to be thrown to dogs, while others were crucified or burned to serve as lights.

Early Christians were persecuted as early as 64 A. D. when Nero ordered large numbers of Christians executed in retaliation for the Great Fire of Rome.

On his arrival at Cenchreae, the port of Corinth, messengers from Nero met Corbulo, and ordered him to commit suicide, which he loyally obeyed by falling on his own sword, saying, " Axios!

Nero ordered Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, the new legate of Cappadocia, to manage the matter.

In AD 67, the philhellene Roman emperor Nero ordered 6, 000 slaves to dig a canal with spades.

After the conspiracy was revealed, Nero ordered Piso and its leaders to commit suicide.

* In AD 59, the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger, supposedly because she was conspiring against him.

After his death, he was replaced by the madder Nero, who ordered Vespasian to repress Josephus and the Jewish rebellion.

During his march from Spain to Rome, Galba had Petronius summarily executed ( or ordered him to take his own life ) as a commander appointed by Nero.

* Roman Emperor Nero ordered the death of his first wife, Octavia, soon after divorcing her in 62 AD.

Fire protection engineering's ( FPE ) roots date back to Ancient Rome, when the Emperor Nero ordered the city to be rebuilt utilizing passive fire protection methods, such as space separation and non-combustible building materials, after a catastrophic fire. The discipline of fire protection engineering emerged in the early 20th century as a distinct discipline, separate from civil, mechanical and chemical engineering, in response to new fire problems posed by the Industrial Revolution.