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1 day ago · List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...
20 hours ago · Maurice (reigned 582–602 ... Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in St. Peter's Basilica. 846 ... Theodor Mommsen The History of Rome, Books I, II, III, IV, V.
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1 day ago · The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. [2] The term "emperor" is a modern convention, and did not exist as such during the Empire. Often when a given Roman is described as becoming emperor in English, it reflects his taking of the ...
- 17 January 395 AD (unified), 9 April 480 AD (Western), 29 May 1453 (Eastern)
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- 16 January 27 BC
1. Augustus: First Roman Emperor. Detail from the larger-than-life statue of Augustus of Prima Porta, early 1st century CE. Source: Musei Vaticani, Rome. Julius Caesar was the first Roman leader to (briefly) hold near-absolute power, but it was his adopted son, Octavian, who became the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
5 days ago · Valens (born c. 328—died Aug. 9, 378) was the Eastern Roman emperor from 364 to 378. He was the younger brother of Valentinian I, who assumed the throne upon the death of the emperor Jovian (Feb. 17, 364). On March 28, 364, Valentinian appointed Valens to be co-emperor. Valens was assigned to rule the Eastern part of the empire, while ...
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2 days ago · 800 AD Charlemagne is crowned "Emperor and Augustus" in Rome on Christmas Day by Pope Leo III, a gesture intended to bolster the power of both pope and king, to link Charlemagne's rule with the emperors of ancient Rome, and to assert the parity of the Western Roman Empire with Byzantium.
4 days ago · 01 Born around April 2, 742, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, making him a key figure in the Carolingian dynasty from a young age. 02 He became king of the Franks in 768, following his father's death. Initially, he co-ruled with his brother Carloman I, but after Carloman's death in 771, Charlemagne became ...
