* The Military Orientation of the Roman Emperors Septimius Severus to Gallienus ( 146 – 268 C. E.

Alexander's dedication of On Fate to Septimius Severus and Caracalla, in gratitude for his position at Athens, indicates a date between 198 and 209.

Alexander's maternal great-aunt was empress Julia Domna ( also Maesa's younger sister ) and his great-uncle in marriage was emperor Lucius Septimius Severus.

* 193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum ( in the Balkans ).

After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus, the city was besieged by Roman forces and suffered extensive damage in 196 AD.

Byzantium was rebuilt by Septimius Severus, now emperor, and quickly regained its previous prosperity.

It was bound to Perinthos during the period of Septimius Severus.

235 ) (), often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222.

* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.

* 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum ( modern York, England ) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.

* 211 – Septimius Severus, Roman emperor ( b. 145 )

Galen became physician to Septimius Severus during his reign in Rome.

In Southern's opinion, these reforms and the decline in senatorial influence not only helped Aurelian to salvage the Empire, but they also make Gallienus one of the emperors most responsible for the creation of the dominate, along with Septimius Severus, Diocletian and Constantine I.

Following the short reign of Pertinax, several rivals for the emperorship emerged, including Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus.

Arch of Septimius Severus in Leptis Magna.

His grandmother Julia Maesa was the widow of the Consul Julius Avitus, the sister of Julia Domna, and the sister-in-law of emperor Septimius Severus.

Since the reign of Septimius Severus, sun worship had increased throughout the Empire.

It was the birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus, who lavished an extensive public works programme on the city, including diverting the course of a nearby river.

In spite of the steady inflation during the 2nd century, there was no further rise until the time of Septimius Severus, who increased it to 500 denarii a year.

Julius may have served under Septimius Severus against the Osrhoenians in 195.

Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211 ), also known as Severus, was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211.

Septimius Severus was born on 11 April 145 at Leptis Magna ( in modern Libya ), son of Publius Septimius Geta and Fulvia Pia.

Severus ' father was an obscure provincial who held no major political status, but he had two cousins, Publius Septimius Aper and Gaius Septimius Severus, who served as consuls under emperor Antoninus Pius.

Septimius Severus was brought up at his home town of Leptis Magna.

By recommendation of his " uncle ", Gaius Septimius Severus, he was granted entry into the senatorial ranks by emperor Marcus Aurelius.

In 173, Severus ' kinsman Gaius Septimius Severus was appointed proconsul of the Africa Province.

Septimius Severus was now in his forties and still childless.

The dynasty was founded by the Roman general Septimius Severus, who rose to power as the victor of the civil war through 193, known as the Year of the Five Emperors.

Although Septimius Severus successfully restored peace following the upheaval of the late 2nd century, the dynasty was disturbed by highly unstable family relationships, and constant political turmoil, foreshadowing the imminent Crisis of the Third Century.

Lucius Septimius Severus was born to a family of equestrian rank in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis.

The eldest son of Severus, he was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus in Lugdunum, Gaul.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

The Roman historian Eutropius in his book, Historiae Romanae Breviarium, written around 369, mentions the Wall of Severus, a structure built by Septimius Severus who was Roman Emperor between 193 and 211:

It took its name from the restoration of already existing roads, carried out during the reign of emperor Septimius Severus ( 198 AD ).

The prefects fulfilled the roles of supreme administrative and juridical official, already present from the time of Septimius Severus, and that of chief financial official, responsible for the state budget.

But the excavation by Carlo Fea, who began clearing the debris from the Arch of Septimius Severus in 1803, and archaeologists under the Napoleonic regime marked the beginning of clearing the Forum, which was only fully excavated in the early 20th century.

In the early 3rd century, Plautianus was executed after a failed conspiracy against Septimius Severus.

An inscription records that the civitas of the Catuvellauni were involved in the reconstruction of Hadrian's Wall, probably in the time of Septimius Severus in the early 3rd century.

It has a monumental arch ( dating to the reign of Septimius Severus, early 3rd century AD ) with rich decorations.

Septimius Severus at Glyptothek, Munich.

* Septimius Severus defeats the army under Pescennius at the Battle of Cyzicus and Battle of Nicaea ( Asia Minor ).

* February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Decimus Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum ( modern Lyon ).

* Septimius Severus, who had spared the Senate at the beginning of his reign, now excludes it from controlling the Roman empire by declaring a military dictatorship.

Head of young Publius Septimius Geta at Glyptothek, Munich

The Pope set no limit to his plans, and achieved much in his short pontificate, always carried through at top speed: the completion of the dome of St. Peter's ; the loggia of Sixtus in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano ; the chapel of the Praesepe in Santa Maria Maggiore ; additions or repairs to the Quirinal, Lateran and Vatican palaces ; the erection of four obelisks, including that in Saint Peter's Square ; the opening of six streets ; the restoration of the aqueduct of Septimius Severus (" Acqua Felice "); the integration of the Leonine City in Rome as XIV rione ( Borgo ).

Sixtus had, however, no appreciation of antiquities, which were employed as raw material to serve his urbanistic and Christianising programs: Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius ( at the time misidentified as the Column of Antoninus Pius ) were made to serve as pedestals for the statues of SS Peter and Paul ; the Minerva of the Capitol was converted into an emblem of Christian Rome ; the Septizonium of Septimius Severus was demolished for its building materials.

Twice it was advanced to the line of the Antonine Wall, at about the time when Hadrian's Wall was built and again under Septimius Severus, and once further north, beyond the river Tay, during Agricola's campaigns – although each time it was soon withdrawn.

A third colony was settled there by Nero, at which time it assumed the title of Concordia ; hence we find it bearing, in inscriptions of the reign of Septimius Severus, the titles Colonia Julia Augusta Concordia Felix Beneventum.

Later emperors like Claudius and Septimius Severus have celebrated the passing of saecula with games at irregular intervals.

Septimius Severus, at the time governor of Pannonia, was proclaimed alternative emperor there by his soldiers ( 193 ).

Following the defeat of Clodius Albinus and his allies by Septimius Severus at Lugdunum, Roma was removed from the Lugdunum cult ara to the temple, where along with the Augusti she was co-opted into a new and repressive formulation of Imperial cult.

Inscriptions at Lambaesis date the formation of Third Legion military clubs to the reign of Septimius Severus and indicate that they were formed by petty officers and specialists attached to the various services of the legion.

* Julius Solon, purchased the rank of senator under Commodus, but put to death by Septimius Severus, at the commencement of his reign.

Because Zosimus places his coup in the reign of Aurelian and because he equates Domitianus with Septiminus ( or Septimius ) who was acclaimed Emperor by the Dalmatian garrison at about the same time it has usually been assumed that Domitianus was directly challenging Aurelian and that his revolt took place within the territory of the central Empire – i. e. those provinces not controlled by either the ‘ Gallic Emperors ’ in the west or Zenobia in the east.

This route started at the Campus Martius, led through the Circus Maximus and around the Palatine Hill ; immediately after the Arch of Constantine, the procession would turn left at the Meta Sudans and march along the Via Sacra to the Forum Romanum and on to the Capitoline Hill, passing both the Arches of Titus and Septimius Severus.

The region is at least since the time of the Roman Empire, inhabited, in the district Leurda in 1964 found some silver coins from the time of Emperor Septimius Severus ( 193-211 ).