Year of the Four Emperors 68–69

Vespasian ⚔ Galba, Otho, Vitellius

Key battles

• Battles of Bedriacum (69)

Who lived through the Year of the Four Emperors

Well-known people alive during 68–69:

• Plutarch (40–120) — Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)
• Tacitus (55–120) — Roman historian and senator (c. 56 – c. 120)
• Pliny the Elder (20–79) — Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
• Epictetus (50–138) — Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50–c. 138)
• Trajan (53–117) — 13th Roman Emperor (98–117)
• Vespasian (9–79) — ninth Roman Emperor and founder of the Flavian dynasty (69–79)
• Matthew the Apostle (10–74) — Christian evangelist and apostle (10-74)
• Titus (39–81) — tenth Roman Emperor (79–81)
• Juvenal (55–) — early 2nd century Roman poet
• Pliny the Younger (61–113) — Roman lawyer, author and magistrate (61 – c.113)
• Pontius Pilatus (11 BC–) — fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36
• Linus (10–79) — 2nd Pope of the Catholic Church
• Domitian (51–96) — 11th Roman Emperor (81–96)
• Josephus (37–100) — Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100)
• Thomas the Apostle (1–72) — one of the Twelve Apostles in the New Testament
• Galba (2 BC–69) — sixth Roman Emperor (68–69)
• Anacletus (25–90) — 3rd pope and bishop of Rome from c. 79 to c. 92 AD
• Martial (40–104) — 1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
• Otho (32–69) — seventh Roman Emperor (69)
• Sixtus I (42–126) — 7th Pope of the Catholic Church
• Vitellius (15–69) — eighth Roman Emperor (69)
• Nerva (30–98) — 12th Roman Emperor (96–98)
• Quintilian (35–96) — 1st century Hispanic-born Roman educator and rhetorician
• Hero of Alexandria (10–75) — ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
• Ignatius of Antioch (35–108) — late 1st/early 2nd century Christian author and Patriarch of Antioch

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