This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

Aemilianus opposed Tiberius Gracchus because he saw the greatness of Rome in conquest rather than Tiberius's view of honor and honesty.

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

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 35, Caligula was named joint heir to Tiberius's estate along with Tiberius Gemellus.

When Tiberius died on 16 March AD 37, his estate and the titles of the Principate were left to Caligula and Tiberius's own grandson, Gemellus, who were to serve as joint heirs.

Both Philo, who wrote during Tiberius's reign, and Josephus record Tiberius as dying a natural death.

# Tiberius was Augustus's stepson, because Tiberius's mother Livia Drusilla married Augustus as her third husband ( Tiberius and Drusus were Livia's only natural children by her first marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero ( praetor 42 BC )).

The Assembly, fearing for Tiberius's safety, formed a guard around Tiberius and frequently escorted him home.

Some suggested that Augustus may have ordered the execution, while others place the blame on either Tiberius or Livia ( with or possibly without Tiberius's knowledge ) ( Suetonius, Lives, Tiberius 22 ), taking advantage of the confusing initial political situation upon Augustus ' death.

Shortly afterward, Macro ( Guido Mannari ), the head of the Praetorian Guards, appears to tell the young man that his great uncle ( Tiberius ) demands that he report at once to the Island of Capri, where Tiberius has been residing for a number of years with a close friend Nerva ( John Gielgud ), a dim-witted relative Claudius ( Giancarlo Badessi ), and Caligula's younger stepbrother Gemellus ( Bruno Brive ) ( Tiberius's favorite ).

Tiberius's second wife was Julia the Elder, Marcus Agrippa's widow ( his first wife had been Vipsania, Agrippa's daughter by his first marriage ); Caesar Augustus adopted Tiberius on June 26, 4, whereupon Tiberius himself adopted his brother Drusus's son by Mark Antony's daughter, Germanicus Julius Caesar.

He destroyed Tiberius's treason papers, declared that treason trials were a thing of the past and recalled those who had been sent into exile.

Additionally, Tiberius's treason trials had eliminated a number of pro-Julian senators such as Asinius Gallus.

According to the classicist J. C. Stobart, Tiberius's Greek education had caused him to overestimate the reliability of the people as a powerbase, causing him to overplay his hand.

Germanicus married Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippa's daughter by Julia and Tiberius's stepdaughter, and had by her one surviving son, Gaius " Caligula " (" Little Boots "), and a daughter, Julia Agrippina, whose second husband was Germanicus's brother by blood, Claudius ( she was his fourth wife ); Agrippina had already borne a son, Lucius, whom Claudius adopted under the name Nero in 40 ; Nero married Claudius's daughter Claudia Octavia in 53.

Caligula reviewed Tiberius's records of treason trials and decided that numerous senators, based on their actions during these trials, were not trustworthy.

The senators were left with only one constitutional response – to threaten prosecution after Tiberius's term as a tribune ended.

When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they were sent back by local rulers, telling tall tales of monsters.

Despite his difficult relationship with the Senate, Tiberius's first years were generally good.

Apparently the main motivations for Tiberius's move from Rome to Capri were his wariness of the political manoeuvring in Rome and a lingering fear of assassination.

The villa is situated at a very secluded spot on the island and Tiberius's quarters in the north and east of the palatial villa were particularly difficult to reach and heavily guarded.

Further reforms in 122 BC were attempted by Tiberius's brother, Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, including the expansion of the laws ' area of influence to all of the colonies in Italy.

The political career of Gaius Gracchus prior to 123 started with a seat on his brother Tiberius's land-commission upon its formation in 133 BC.

The Villa San Michele was built around the turn of the 20th century by the Swedish physician, Axel Munthe, on the ruins of the Roman Emperor Tiberius's villa, on the Isle of Capri, Italy.

" Bart D. Ehrman states: " Tacitus's report confirms what we know from other sources, that Jesus was executed by order of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, sometime during Tiberius's reign.

The Bodensee region, as a Roman province administered from Augusta Vindelicorum, present day Augsburg, was governed by a Finance official ( Procurator ) under Tiberius's command.

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

The adolescent Caligula was then sent to live first with his great-grandmother ( and Tiberius's mother ) Livia.

He also became the adoptive brother of Tiberius's natural son Drusus the Younger.

* 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

* March 18 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula Roman Emperor.

* Livilla marries Drusus Julius Caesar, Tiberius's son.

Tiberius's military career started in the Third Punic War, as military tribune appointed to the staff of his brother in law, Scipio Aemilianus.

In any case, Postumus's banishment did ensure Tiberius's priority as Augustus's heir.

It should be American policy not only to encourage effective land reform programs but also to underline the relation of such reforms to the economic growth and modernization of the society.

As an isolated policy, land reform is likely to be politically disruptive ; ;

In eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England, the word identified any land reform movement that sought to redistribute cultivated lands equally.

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

Regarding Ireland the major Liberal achievements were land reform, where he ended centuries of landlord oppression ), the disestablishment of the ( Anglican ) Church of Ireland through the Irish Church Act 1869.

Campbell-Bannerman was able to rally the party around the traditional liberal platform of free trade and land reform and led them to the greatest election victory in their history.

The Popular Unity platform included the nationalization of U. S. interests in Chile's major copper mines, the advancement of workers ' rights, deepening of the Chilean land reform, reorganization of the national economy into socialized, mixed, and private sectors, a foreign policy of " international solidarity " and national independence and a new institutional order ( the " people's state " or " poder popular "), including the institution of a unicameral congress.

Both groups claimed to represent the poor and weak against the rich and powerful classes of the country, demanding the completion of true land and political reform, from an openly Communist perspective.

This left the Rump basically a conservative body whose vested interests in the existing land ownership and legal systems made them unlikely to want to reform these.

At the time a Marxist-Leninist, his first period in office was characterized by a controversial program of land reform, wealth redistribution and literacy programs.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

Substantial peasant activism exists on a variety of issues, especially related to land rights and land reform.

A major flash point was the 1997 repeal of Nasser-era land reform policies under pressure for structural adjustment.

At least 525, 000 people — more than 12 % of El Salvador's population at the time and perhaps 25 % of the rural poor — benefited from agrarian reform, and more than 22 % of El Salvador's total farmland was transferred to those who previously worked the land but did not own it.

At the same time, several of Madero's allies denounced him for being overly reconciliatory with the Porfirians and with not moving aggressively forward with reforms: thus, on 25 November 1911, Emiliano Zapata issued his Plan of Ayala, denouncing Madero for being uninterested in pursuing land reform.

That military respect for law began The Ten Years of Spring, a democratic period of free speech and open political activity, plans for national land reform, and the historical perception, by the intelligentsia, that much and great political progress could be made in realizing the civil governance of Guatemala.

By 1952, Arbenz supported a land reform, and took unused agricultural land, about, from owners who had large properties, and made it available to rural workers and farmers.

They attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians, in addition to other reform measures.

He immediately began pushing for a programme of land reform, partly by invoking an old Sextian-Licinian law that limited the amount of land that could be owned by a single individual.