, Italy
With the armies in revolt and the Senate against him, Nero flees Rome and takes his own life at a freedman's villa outside the city.
“What an artist is now about to perish!”
Nero kills himself as the Senate declares him an enemy
68 CE, Italy. An event.
Where and when
68 CEItaly
1,958 years ago
Why it matters
Nero was the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and his death set off the brief civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
Based on Wikipedia: Nero
was Roman emperor from AD 54 until his suicide in AD 68, as the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
His death sparked a brief period of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
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