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[[Marcus Didius Salvius Julianus Severus]] (133 – 193 CE) reigned shortly in 193 CE.
====Overview====
[[Didius Julianus]], a Roman Senator, succeeded to [[Pertinax]], after the late was murdered by the [[Praetorian Guard]] in 193 CE. He had to face immediately various rebellions through the Empire. Soon afterwards, in the same year, [[Septimius Severus]] deposed him and had him executed.
====Early Career====
[[Didius Julianus]] was born in 133 CE. His father, Quintus Petronius Didius Severus, came from an important family from [[Milan]]. His mother, Aemilia Clara, came from a family of consular rank. The young [[Didius Julianus]] did grow up in the house of [[Domitia Lucilla]], the mother of Roman Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius]]. [[Didius Julianus]] took the Senatorial [[cursus honorum]], and appointed in turn, quaestor, aedilis, and in 162 CE he was appointed praetor. He was then appointed legate of the [[Legio XXII Primigenia]] in [[Mogontiacum]]. There he repressed the rebellion of the [[Chauci]]. In 175 CE, he was appointed consul, together with [[Pertinax]]. His [[cursus honorum]] continued with a governorship in the provinces of [[Dalmatia]] and [[Germania Inferior]], prefect of Italy, governor of [[Bythinia]], and then in 190 CE, he was appointed proconsul of [[Africa]], where he succeeded to [[Pertinax].  He was married to [[Manlia Scantilla]] and in 153 CE, he had a daughter, [[Didia Clara]].
====Imperial Succession====
[[Didius Iulianus]] bought the Imperial purple in an auction hold by the [[Praetorian Guard]], who, under the leadership of the praetorian prefect [[Aemilius Laetus]], had murdered [[Pertinax]] in 193 CE. [[Didius Julianus]] won after he offered to the soldiers a big donative, outbidding the urban prefect [[Titus Flavius Sulpicianus]]. His accession to the throne was immediately contested by various rebellions all over the empire, [[Septimius Severus]] in [[Pannonia]], [[Pescennius Niger]] in [[Syria]], and [[Clodius Albinus]] in [[Britain]]. [[Didius Julianus]] asked the Senate to appoint [[Septimius Severus]], who was marching to Rome, as a joint Emperor. [[Septimius Severus]] refused, and once he entered in Rome in the summer of 193 CE, he had [[Didius Julianus]] sentenced to death by the Senate and executed.
== [[Didius Julianus]] in ancient sources==
== [[Didius Julianus]] in Scholarship==
== [[Didius Julianus]] in Fiction==
==Related categories==
*[[Roman Emperors]] / [[Didius Julianus]]
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus Wikipedia]


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