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wolframpant · 10 months ago
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....he became emperor in his fiftieth year by a remarkable freak of fortune. When the assassins of Gaius shut out the crowd under pretence that the emperor wished to be alone, Claudius was ousted with the rest and withdrew to an apartment called the Hermaeum; and a little later, in great terror at the news of the murder, he stole away to a balcony hard by and hid among the curtains which hung before the door. As he cowered there, a common soldier, who was prowling about at random, saw his feet, intending to ask who he was, pulled him out and recognized him; and when Claudius fell at his feet in terror, he hailed him as emperor. (Suetonius: The Life of Claudius)
24 January 41 AD. Following the murder of his nephew Gaius, Claudius is found hiding behind the curtain and proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian guard.
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wolframpant · 1 year ago
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13 October 54 AD: Emperor Claudius dies after consuming some mushrooms that were allegedly poisoned by his wife Agrippina.
I, Claudius
Anno Domini
Imperium: Nerone
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