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Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus

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Born: 121 AD
Died: 180 AD, at 58 years of age.

Nationality: Roman
Categories: Emperor

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121 - Born on the 26th of April in Rome.

147 - He received the proconsular imperium outside Rome and the tribunicia potestas, the main formal powers of emperorship.

145 - Married Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Younger, who was Antoninus' daughter and his paternal cousin.

180 - Died on the 17th of march in the city of Vindobona.





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