The most important Roman emperors
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Augustus · Tiberius · Caligula. (Updated Feb 16, 2023.)
From Augustus to Romulus Augustulus: the emperors who made, and unmade, the Roman Empire. Who was the greatest?
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Top 17
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Augustus
27 BC-AD 14. The first emperor, who began the Pax Romana.
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Tiberius
Augustus's successor, who long ruled from Capri.
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Caligula
Remembered for his excesses; assassinated in AD 41.
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Claudius
He conquered Britain.
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Nero
The fire of Rome in 64 and the Domus Aurea.
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Vespasian
Founder of the Flavian dynasty; began the Colosseum.
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Titus
Opened the Colosseum in AD 80; reigned during the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Trajan
The first emperor born in Hispania; the empire reached its greatest extent.
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Hadrian
Hadrian's Wall, the rebuilt Pantheon and Hadrian's Villa.
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Marcus Aurelius
The philosopher emperor, author of the "Meditations".
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Commodus
Son of Marcus Aurelius, who loved to fight as a gladiator.
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Septimius Severus
The first emperor of African origin, born in Leptis Magna.
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Caracalla
Granted citizenship to all free men of the empire in 212.
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Diocletian
Created the tetrarchy to govern an empire that had grown too large.
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Constantine the Great
Legalised Christianity and founded Constantinople.
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Theodosius I
The last to rule the united empire; made Christianity the state religion.
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Romulus Augustulus
The last Western emperor, deposed in 476.
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