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A marble bust of the emperor Caligula in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.Image: Sergey Sosnovskiy from Saint-Petersburg, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0politics · Europe
The emperor Caligula is murdered by his own guards
Gaius Caesar, known from boyhood by his nickname Caligula, ‘little boot’, became Roman emperor in AD 37 to great rejoicing. Within months his rule turned cruel and erratic: ancient writers describe executions on a whim, ruinous spending and his demand to be worshipped as a god. On 24 January 41, during games on the Palatine Hill, he was attacked in a passage near his palace by Cassius Chaerea, a tribune of the Praetorian Guard whom he had often mocked, and other officers, and stabbed to death. His wife and daughter were also killed. The guardsmen found his uncle Claudius hiding in the palace and proclaimed him emperor.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Caligula ↗
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