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A Roman marble statue of the emperor Otho in the Louvre, Paris.Image: Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0politics · Europe
Emperor Otho ends his brief reign
On 16 April 69, after his army had been beaten by the forces of his rival Vitellius near Bedriacum in northern Italy, the Roman emperor Otho took his own life. He had ruled for barely three months. Ancient writers said he chose to die rather than prolong a civil war. It was the middle of the Year of the Four Emperors, which ended with Vespasian in power.
Source: De Imperatoribus Romanis (Loyola University Chicago): Otho ↗
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