Lists of Roman Emperors

Home About Bible Studies Documents Charts Contact Links

"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction." - Revelation 17:9-11

LISTS OF ROMAN EMPERORS

The Roman Historian Tacitus in his history, The Annals, begins his list of Roman emperors with Augustus Caesar (Octavian), but the Roman Historian Suetonius begins his list of Roman Emperors in Lives of the Twelve Caesars with Julius Caesar as the first of the Roman Emperors as does Dio Cassius in his Roman History and Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews. There were, therefore, two official lists in use in the first century AD.

Suetonius' List	Tacitus' List
1. Julius Caesar died 44BC
2. Augustus Caesar died 14AD	1. Augustus Caesar
3. Tiberius died 37AD	2. Tiberius
4. Caligula died 41AD	3. Caligula
5. Claudius died 54AD	4. Claudius
6. Nero died 68AD	5. Nero
7. Galba died 69AD	6. Galba
8. Otho died 69AD	7. Otho
9. Vitilleus died 69AD	8. Vitilleus
10. Vespasian died 79AD	9. Vespasian
11. Titus died 81AD	10. Titus
12. Domitian died 96AD	11. Domitian

LIST OF 10 IMPERIAL PROVINCES

Italy
Achaia
Asia
Syria/Judea
Egypt
Africa
Spain
Gaul
Britain
Germany

LIST OF THE HERODIAN RULERS

1. Herod the Great
2. Archelaus
3. Herod Antipas
4. Philip Herod
5. Herod of Chalcis
6. Agrippa I
7. Agrippa II