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Caracalla

Caracalla: emperor of the Roman world (211-217).

Names

4 April 186: Lucius Septimius Bassianus
Nicnames: Caracalla, Tarautas
4 April 196: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar
Autumn 197: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
4 February 211: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus
Britannicus maximus (210), Parthicus maximus (211), Arabicus maximus (211), Adiabenicus maximus (211) Magnus (213), Germanicus maximus (213)
8 April 217: murdered by Macrinus

Successor of: Lucius Septimius Severus

Relatives:

Caracalla as Alexander

211 Death of Lucius Septimius Severus; Caracalla and Geta are recognized; return to Rome; execution of Plautilla; Caracalla kills Geta
212 Constitutio Antoniniana (Roman citizenship to all freeborn men)
213 Consul IV (with Decimus Calvius Calvinus Balbinus);
213, early summer: in Rome
213, August: in northern Italy; reaches Raetia
213, first half September: brief campaign against the Alamans
213, September: in Mainz
214 Leaves for the east; visits the Lower Danube, Asia, visits Nicomedia
215 Stay in Antioch; his mother Julia Domna in charge of the offices of a libellis and ab epistulis; proceeds to Alexandria (inscription at Nahr al-Kalb near Berytus)
216 Return to Antioch; preparations for war against the Parthian Empire; attack on Arbela
217 Killed near Harran; succeeded by Macrinus, his praetorian prefect

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Succeeded by: Macrinus