Death of Nero
68 · Event
Abandoned by the Senate, the Guard and his own slaves, the last of the Julio-Claudians stabs himself in a freedman's villa outside Rome, lamenting 'what an artist dies in me'. A century of dynastic rule ends with no heir and no rule for making one — and four armies notice at once.
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