On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, and terrorist who was part of Young Bosnia and was backed by a number of Serbian terrorist groups. The aftermath of this act would lead to Austria declaring war on Serb...
Tiberius Claudius Nero's father was lucky to escape execution by Octavian Caesar after the siege of Perusia in 40 BC. His parents took the infant Tiberius and fled from the blood-chilling vengeance of the future Emperor Augustus. As they made their perilous escape from Italy nobody gave a ...
Who was succeeded by the Flavian dynasty? Who killed Tiberius Gracchus? Who assigned Sulla command of the war against Mithridates? Who tried to kill Heinrich Himmler? Who founded the Knights Hospitaller? Who killed Marcus Aurelius? Who was assassinated by the Roman Senate?
Emperor Tiberius Perished Twice Photo: Carole Raddato Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Tiberius was one of the oldest emperors of Rome. He reached the advanced age of 77, andappeared to perishof natural causes after an injury and long illness in 37 CE... except he actually didn't - h...
During his reign, Vespasian helped reform the financial system and began many ambitious construction projects, most notably the Colosseum. Vespasian was also the first Roman emperor ever to be succeeded by his son. That father-son handoff would lay the groundwork for the Flavian Dynasty, a near...
Tiberius' 22-and-a-half-year reign would be the longest after that of Augustus until that of Antoninus Pius, who surpassed his reign by a few months. Tiberius was one of the greatest Roman generals; his conquest of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and (temporarily) parts of Germania, laid ...
Luke intentionally situates John’s ministry and Jesus’ arrival on the scene within a historical context in which Tiberius is the Roman Emperor; Pilate is governor of Judea; Herod, Philip, and Lysanias are Tetrarchs – vassal rulers of Galilee, Idumea, and Syria, respectively, and Annas and...
Tacitus tells us that the Roman emperor Nero "inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class … called Christians.… Christus [Christ], from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.…"...
Philo claimed that the people of Jerusalem protested the display of the shields and sent letters to the Roman Emperor Tiberius asking for the shields to be taken down. Tiberius wrote to Pilate rebuking his decision to display the shields and ordered that they be removed. Philo wrote that Pilate...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 is an upcoming live-action/2D/3D computer traditional animated fantasy-romantic-musical-black slapstick comedy film and a sequel to the first 1988 film of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It will be produced by Walt Disney Animation Stu