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Home Aqueducts Roads Weapons Senator Coliseum numerals studersender Nero was born at Antium (Anzio) on 15 December AD 37 and was first named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. When nero was two his mother was banished to Caligula. As Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, he succeeded to the throne on 13 October, 54, following Claudius' death. Nero became emporer at the age of 16, the youngest emporer at that time. He had his mother put to death because his mother wanted to rule through him. Two years later, much of Rome was destroyed in a fire, for which Nero was blamed, although this is now regarded as unlikely. In 65 Nero kicked his wife Poppaea to death; his next wife was Statilia Messalina whose husband Nero executed. The senate declared him a public enemy and he committed suicide on 9 June 68 AD.

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