Timeline of Roman Emperors
Dates the Emperors Ruled |
| 27BC-14AD
| Augustus Caesar "The first Roman Emperor" |
| 14AD-37AD | Tiberius "The Emperor who trusted Sejanus and lived in Capri" |
| 37-41AD | Caligula "The Evil Emperor who proclaimed himself a god" |
| 41-54AD | Claudius "The bumbling Emperor who married the infamous Messalina" |
| 54-68AD | Nero "The mad tyrant who blamed the Christians for the burning of Rome" |
| 68-69AD | Galba "The old man the first in the Year of the four Emperors" |
| 69AD | Otho "The greedy ruler who lasted just three months" Timeline |
| 69AD | Vitellius "The man who killed his dissolute son" Timeline |
| 69-79AD | Vespasian "The Emperor who built the Colosseum" Timeline |
| 79-81AD | Titus "The Emperor who destroyed the temple in Jerusalem" |
| 81-96AD | Domitian "The evil emperor who murdered thousands of Christians" |
| 96-98AD | Nerva "The first of the Five Good Emperors" Timeline |
| 98-117AD | Trajan "The Emperor who left the legacy of Trajan's market and Column" |
| 117-138AD | Hadrian "The Emperor who built Hadrian's Wall" Timeline |
| 138-161AD | Antoninus Pius "The Excellent Emperor" Timeline |
| 161-180AD | Marcus Aurelius "The Philosopher, last of the Five Good Emperors" |
| 161-169AD | Lucius Verus: Joint Rule with Marcus Aurelius |
| 177-192AD | Commodus "More savage than Domitian, more foul than Nero". |
| 193AD | Pertinax "The Emperor who was murdered by the Praetorian guard" |
| 193AD | Didius Julianus "The man who paid to become Emperor" |
| 193-194AD | Pescennius Niger "The Black Emperor" Timeline |
| 195-197AD | Claudius Albinus "The Emperor who made a bad deal..." |
| 193-211AD | Septimius Severus "Emperor who increased the Praetorian Guards to 50,000" |
| 198-217AD | Caracalla "The common enemy of mankind." Timeline |
| 209-212AD | Geta "The hated brother of Caracalla..." Timeline |
| 217-218AD | Macrinus "The Praetorian guard who killed Caracalla..." |
| 218AD | Diadumenian "The Boy-Caesar - killed when he was 10 years old" |
| 218-222AD | Elagabalus "He married a Vestal Virgin and then took a husband..." |
| 222-238AD | Alexander Severus "He who revoked all former edicts against the Christians" |
| 235-238AD | Maximinus Thrax "The Thug..." Roan Emperors Timeline |
| 238AD | Gordian I "The Octogenarian..." Timeline |
| 238AD | Gordian II "Co-Emperor with his father" |
| 238AD | Balbinus "The Orator and Poet..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 238AD | Pupienus "The Disciplinarian..." Timeline |
| 238-244AD | Gordian III "Grandson Of Gordian I and Nephew Of Gordian II" |
| 244-249AD | Philip the Arab "Philip and Severa - the first Christian imperial couple" |
| 244-249AD | Philip II "The boy emperor who died in his mother's arms" |
| 248AD | Pacatian "The Usurper from Bulgaria..." Timeline |
| 248AD | Jotapian "The Usurper from Syria..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 249-251AD | Trajan Decius "One of the most cruel persecutors of the Christians" |
| 251AD | Herennius Etruscus "Killed by a Goth's arrow" Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 251AD | Hostilian "The Emperor who died from the Plague" Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 251-253AD | Trebonianus Gallus "The Emperor, the Plague, the Persians and the mutiny" |
| 251-253AD | Volusian "The son who was raised to the position of Joint Emperor" |
| 253AD | Aemilian "Three months as Emperor, then death" Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 253-260AD | Valerian "The Emperor who was skinned and stuffed with manure" |
| 253-268AD | Gallienus "Famine, Plague and the 'Thirty Tyrants" Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 268-270AD | Claudius II (Gothicus) "He fought the Goths, the Vandals and Traitors..." |
| 270AD | Quintillus "Champion of the Senate" Timeline |
| 270-275AD | Aurelian "The illiterate military genius..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 267-273AD | Zenobia "The Warrior Queen..." Timeline |
Interregnum - A Period of about 6 Months when the Empire was without an Emperor. |
| 275-276AD | Tacitus "The Emperor who followed the Interregnum..." |
| 276AD | Florianus "The Emperor who ruled for 88 days..." |
| 276-282AD | Probus "The Emperor who believed that idle hands make mischief..." |
| 282-283AD | Carus "The Frugal emperor..." Timeline |
| 283-284AD | Numerian "The Emperor whose body was left to rot..." |
| 283-285AD | Carinus "The debauched Emperor suspected of incest..." |
| 285AD | Nigrian "Was this infant the product of incest?" Timeline |
| 284-285AD | Julian of Pannonia "The last usurper before the Roman Empire was split..." |
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In 285 the Roman Empire was split in half by Diocletian
The Western Roman Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantine Empire
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| 284-305AD | Diocletian "The Emperor who split the Roman Empire..." |
| 286-305AD
306 - 308 AD
310 AD
| Maximianus(with Diocletian 286-305AD, and ruled again after a brief abdication 306-308 and then again in 310AD)
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| 287-293AD | Carausius "The Usurper Emperor of the Britannic Empire..." Timeline |
| 293-296AD | Allectus "The second Usurper Emperor of the Britannic Empire..." |
| 296-297AD | Domitius Domitianus "The Usurper Emperor of Egypt..." Timeline |
| 305-306AD | Constantius Chlorus "The Emperor who recovered Brittania..." |
| 305-311AD | Galerius "The Emperor who persecuted the Christians but eventually begged for their prayers..."
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| 306-312AD | Maxentius "The Usurper Emperor who provoked another Civil War..." |
| 306-309 | Valerius Romulus "The Boy Emperor who came from a family of Emperors..." |
| 306-307AD | Severus II "The Emperor who was murdered at Tres Tabernae..." |
| 307-337AD | Constantine the Great "The Christian Emperor who united the Empire..." |
| 309-313AD | Maximinus "Killed in Tarsus with his wife and children ..." |
| 308-311AD | Domitius Alexander "The usurper Emperor of Africa..." Timeline |
| 308-324AD | Licinius I "The Emperor who fought against Constantine the Great..." |
| 314AD | Valerian Valens "The Emperor whose death formed part of a peace treaty..." |
| 317-324AD | Licinius II "The Son of the Emperor who plotted with the Goths..." |
| 317-326AD | Crispus "The Caesar who was falsely accused of treason..." |
| 323-324AD | Sextus Martinianus "Executed on orders from Constantine" |
| 335-337AD | Delmatius "The Emperor who died in a blood bath..." Timeline |
| 335-337AD | Hannibalianus "Ruled as 'Rex' or King..." Timeline |
| 337-340AD | Constantine II "Killed fighting over territory with his brother..." |
| 337-350AD | Constans "The Emperor who was put to death by an ambitious soldier..." |
| 337-361AD | Constantius II "The second and worst of the sons of Constantine the Great..." |
| 350-353AD | Magnentius "The Christian Emperor who fell on his sword..." |
| 351-353AD | Decentius "The Usurper Emperor who hung himself..." |
| 350AD | Vetranio "The Emperor who was stripped of the purple ..." |
| 350AD | Nepotian "The Emperor who had his head paraded on a spear..." |
| 351-354AD | Constantius Gallus "His pardon failed to reach the executioner..." |
| 360-363AD | Julian the Apostate "The Last non-Christian Roman Emperor..." |
| 363-364AD | Jovian "The Emperor who re-established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire..."
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| 364-375AD | Valentinian I "The Emperor given to fits of rage..." Timeline |
| 364-378AD | Valens "The Emperor who allowed the Goths to settle on Roman territory..." |
| 365-366AD | Procopius "The last of the Constantinian dynasty dies..." |
| 367-383AD | Gratian "The Emperor who was deserted and murdered by his soldiers..." |
| 375-392AD | Valentinian II "The Emperor who was strangled to death..." |
| 379-395AD | Theodosius I "The Emperor who resisted the Barbarians..." |
| 383-388AD | Magnus "Was this Emperor the nephew of Old King Cole?" |
| 383-408AD | Arcadius "The Emperor who engaged Alaric the Goth to be the guardian of the Eastern empire..." Roman Emperors Timeline
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| 387-388AD | Flavius Victor "The Usurper whose mother was a Queen of the Britons..." |
| 392-394AD | Eugenius "Executed by beheading" Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 393-423AD | Honorius "The End of the Gladiators and the Sack of Rome..." |
| 400-404AD | Arcadius "Dominated by Rufinus..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 402-450AD | Theodosius II "The Emperor who introduced the law code of Theodosius II..." |
| 407-411AD | Constantine III "The Usurper Emperor who was ordained priest hoping for mercy..."
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| 408-411AD | Constans II "The Usurper Emperor who was betrayed by his general..." |
| 409-410 | Priscus Attalus "The Usurper Emperor who was banished..."
409-410 & 414-415AD
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| 411-413AD | Jovinus "The Emperor who defeated at the siege of Valence..." |
| 412-413AD | Sebastianus "The Usurper Emperor whose head was sent to the imperial court..." Roman Emperors Timeline
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| 421AD | Constantius III "The Emperor who retrieved the western empire from the brink of disaster..."
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| 423-425AD | Ioannes "Captured, mutilated and while still living, set upon an ass in the Roman Circus and finally killed..."
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| 425-455AD | Valentinian III "The Vandals were coming and so was Attila the Hun..." |
| 450-457AD | Marcian "The Emperor who refused to recognize the emperors of the West" |
| 455AD | Petronius Maximus "The Assassin Emperor..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 455-456AD | Avitus "The Emperor who was backed by the Visigoths..." |
| 457-474AD | Leo I "The Emperor who was known as 'the great Thracian' by friends and 'the Butcher' by his enemies..." Roman Emperors Timeline
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| 457-461AD | Majorian "The Emperor who gained victories over the Franks & Vandals..."
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| 461-465AD | Libius Severus "The Puppet Emperor who was probably poisoned..." |
| 467-472AD | Anthemius "The Emperor who believed that he was a victim of sorcery..." |
| 472AD | Olybrius "Pawn of Ricimer, who died of dropsy..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 473-474AD | Glycerius "The Exiled Emperor ..." Roman Emperors Timeline |
| 474-475AD | Julius Nepos "The Emperor who was killed by the man he had deposed..." |
| 475-476AD | Romulus Augustus "The Last Roman Emperor..." |
Eastern Empire (Byzantine) |
Timeline of Roman Emperors - Dates the Emperors Ruled |
Timeline of Gallic Emperors |
| 253-255AD | Valerian II |
| 259AD | Saloninus |
| 260-261AD | Macrianus |
| 260-261AD | Quietus |
| 260AD | Regalianus |
| 259-268AD | Postumus |
| 268AD | Laelianus |
| 268AD | Marius |
| 268-270AD | Victorinus |
| 270-273AD | Tetricus I |
| 270-273AD | Tetricus II |
Timeline of Roman Emperors - Dates the Emperors Ruled |
