Senate Picks Tacitus as Emperor: An Old Man Nobody Expected
The Roman Senate reclaimed the rare authority to choose an emperor by proclaiming the elderly senator Marcus Claudius Tacitus after a two-month interregnum following Aurelian's assassination. His brief reign of less than a year ended with his own suspicious death, proving that senatorial emperors remained easy targets in an age of military strongmen.
September 25, 275
1751 years ago
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