Didius Julianus
c. 133 CE–c. 193 CE · Milan
Roman senator who became emperor in 193 CE after offering the highest bid to the Praetorian Guard, which had auctioned the throne following the murder of Pertinax during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors. His reign lasted only about nine weeks (roughly 66 days) before the Senate turned against him, condemning him to death and recognizing his rival Septimius Severus, who was marching on Rome. He was killed by a soldier in the imperial palace on 2 June 193 CE.
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About Milan
Milan, in the Po plain of northern Italy, is the capital of Lombardy and the country's economic centre. As Roman Mediolanum it served as a capital of the Western Roman Empire from the late third century until 402, and in 313 Constantine issued the Edict of Milan there, granting toleration to Christians and others. Its bishop Ambrose (374-397), the city's patron saint, baptised Augustine. Under the Visconti and Sforza dukes it became a leading Renaissance city, where Leonardo da Vinci worked at court and painted the Last Supper; Spanish and then Austrian rule followed. Jews were expelled in the sixteenth century, but a community re-formed in the nineteenth and opened the city's central synagogue in 1892.
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