In 69 AD Vespasian, a general who had been prominent in the conquest of Britain under Claudius, was proclaimed emperor. He was a fair, if stingy, emperor. He was followed by his son Titus, during whose reign Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum. After Titus came his younger brother, Domitian, a tyrant who was assassinated in 96 AD.
The Senate voted the elderly Nerva to the vacant post. He only lived a little over a year, but he adopted Trajan to be his successor. This started a train of fairly benevolent "adoptive" emperors. Under the likes of Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, Rome's "golden age" was played out.
With the accession of yet another tyrant, Commodus, in 180 AD, Rome started it's decline.
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Vespasian
1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD
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Titus as Caesar
69-79AD
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Titus as Caesar
69-79AD
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Titus as Augustus
79-81AD
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Julia Titi, daughter of Titus
Augusta 79-89 AD
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Domitian: Caesar under Vespasian
69-79AD
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Domitian: Caesar under Vespasian
69-79AD
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Domitian: Caesar under Titus
69-79AD
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Domitian
Augustus 81-96AD
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Domitian
Augustus 81-96AD
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Domitian
Caes. 69-79AD: Aug. 81-96AD
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Domitia wife of Domitian
Caes. 69-79AD: Aug. 81-96AD
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Nerva
18th Sept. 96 AD - 28th Jan. 98 AD
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Nerva
18th Sept. 96 AD - 28th Jan. 98 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Trajan
28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD
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Matidia, niece of Trajan
119 AD
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Hadrian
11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD
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Hadrian
11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD
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Hadrian
11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD
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Hadrian
11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD
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Sabina wife of Hadrian
m. 100 AD: d. 136/7 AD
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Sabina wife of Hadrian
m. 100 AD: d. 136/7 AD
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Aelius
136 - 1st Jan. 138 AD
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Aelius
136 - 1st Jan. 138 AD
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Antoninus Pius
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD
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Antoninus Pius
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD
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Antoninus Pius
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD
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Antoninus Pius
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD
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Antoninus Pius
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161 AD
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Antoninus Pius (posthumous)
Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD
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Antoninus Pius with M. Aurelius
138-161AD
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Faustina Senior
wife of Antoninus Pius
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Marcus Aurelius
as Caesar 139-161 AD
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Marcus Aurelius
as Caesar 139-161AD
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Marcus Aurelius
Augustus 161-180AD
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Marcus Aurelius
Augustus 161-180AD
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Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
139-180AD / 161-169 AD
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Faustina Junior
wife of Marcus Aurelius
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Lucius Verus
161 - 169 AD
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Lucilla wife of Lucius Verus
daughter of Marcus Aurelius
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Commodus
as Caesar 175-177AD
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Commodus
Caes. 175-177AD: Aug. 180-192AD
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Commodus
Caes. 175-177AD: Aug. 180-192AD
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Commodus
Caes. 175-177AD: Aug. 180-192AD
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Crispina wife of Commodus
m. 178 AD - d. 189 AD
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