Important Dates

Question 1

Explicit reference to a military bodyguard as praetorian

Answer 1

62 BCE

Question 2

Reign of Augustus

Answer 2

27 BCE - 14 CE

Question 3

Establishment of the praetorian guard

Answer 3

27 BCE

Question 4

Tacitus rate of pay: 730 denarii annually (2 denarii a day)

Answer 4

14 CE

Question 5

Sejanus united the separate cohorts of the guard within the castra praetoria (a fortress)

Answer 5

23 CE

Question 6

Sejanus suspected of a plot and removed from his position and executed on the emperor’s orders

Answer 6

31 CE

Question 7

Reign of Tiberius

Answer 7

14 - 37 CE

Question 8

Reign of Caligula

Answer 8

37 - 41 CE

Question 9

Assassination of Gaius (Caligula)

Answer 9

41 CE

Question 10

Reign of Claudius

Answer 10

41 - 54 CE

Question 11

Claudius attacked by a mob

Answer 11

51 CE

Question 12

Reign of Nero

Answer 12

54 - 68 CE

Question 13

Pisonian Conspiracy

Answer 13

65 CE

Question 14

Year of the 4 Emperors

Answer 14

69 CE

Question 15

Flavian Dynasty

Answer 15

69 - 96 CE

Question 16

Reign of Titus

Answer 16

79 - 81 CE

Question 17

Reign of Domitian

Answer 17

81 - 96 CE

Question 18

Nerva-Antonine Dynasty

Answer 18

96 - 192 CE

Question 19

Reign of Nerva

Answer 19

96 - 98 CE

Question 20

Reign of Trajan

Answer 20

98 - 117 CE

Question 21

Reign of Hadrian

Answer 21

117 - 138 CE

Question 22

What happened in 97 CE?

Answer 22

The sources reveal that a praetorian revolt forced Nerva to acquiesce in the punishment of those who had killed Domitian; he also adopted Trajan

Question 23

Reign of Antoninus Pius

Answer 23

138 - 161 CE

Question 24

Reign of Marcus Aurelius

Answer 24

161 - 180 CE

Question 25

Reign of Lucius Verus

Answer 25

161 - 191 CE

Question 26

Reign of Commodus

Answer 26

180 - 192 CE

Question 27

Year of the 5 emperors

Answer 27

193 CE

Question 28

Name the Julio-Claudians in order

Answer 28

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero

Question 29

Name the 4 emperors of 69 CE in order

Answer 29

Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian

Question 30

Name the Flavians in order

Answer 30

Vespasian, Titus, Domitian

Question 31

Name the Nerva-Antonine dynasty in order

Answer 31

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Commodus

Question 32

Name the 5 emperors of 193 CE in order

Answer 32

Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus