Lucius Septimus Severus the first black Emperor of Rome

 

"Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all others"

On this day 4 February 211 AD, Lucius Septimus Severus the first black Emperor of Rome died because of his illness and gout.

Septemius Severus was born on 11 April 145 at Leptis Magna (Libya) and came from a locally prominent Punic family who had a history of rising to senatorial as well as consular status. He married to Pacciana Marciana 175 AD who had Punic origins like him and after the Pacciana died on 186 he remarried to Julia Domna from Emesa (Syria) at 187 AD and have to children Caracalla and Geta.

He enter Rome around 163 AD during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and became a senate member at 170 AD. in 191 AD he as appointed as a Governor of Pannonia Superior, Emperor Commodus was assassinated at 192 AD and Pertinax was become a new emperor and did not last with his reign because he was also killed by the Praetorian Guard in early 193 AD. 14 April 193 Septimius reign as a first Black Emperor in Rome. He remove the Praetorian Guard and replace it with Danubian under his command.

After Severus make his status stable in Rome by defeating all his politcal rivals, he started the campaign to war against Parthian Empire and attack the cities Baylon, Seleucia and the capital of Ctesiphon. In late 202 Severus launched a campaign in the province of Africa he made a the expansion of the African frontier and even briefly held a military presence in Garama in 203 AD.

Flavius Constantius III

On this day, February 8, 421 AD Flavius Constantius III was becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Constantine (Flavius Claudius Constantinus, was a Roman general who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in Britannia in 407 and was co-emperor from 409 until 411 ) proclaim him self as Emperor makes annoyed Honorius. In 411 under Western Roman emperor Flavius Honorius he sent as a Master of Soldiers and Cavalry against th usurping Constantine.

Constantius III overthrow usurper Constantine at Arelate (Arles, France) and Constantine surrender after his troops deserted him and other committed suicide after the defeat in battle. In August or September 411 he beheaded Constantine and put the head on a pole, and presented to Emperor Honorius on 18 September.

Constantius, said that was fall in love with princess Aelia Galla Placidia (daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I and sister of Honorius), but as kidnap and married by Visigoth king Ataulphus. He initiated a campaign against the Visigoths in northern Hispania in 416, they abused and cut the food supplies until the Visigoth king, Wallia, surrendered to Rome and return Galla to Rome. He married Galla Placidia on January 1, 417 AD. They had two children by Constantius, Valentinian and Justa Grata Honoria.

He proclaim as Emperor February 8, 421 AD, but his reign doesn't last long after died on September 2, 421 after eight months on his throne, he died due to pleuritis (pleurisy) at Ravenna, Italy. After his death Honorius succeded his and pass to his son Valentinian with the guid of his wife Galla Pacidia as a regent.

Narmer

Narmer First King of Unified Egypt

By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Name: Narmer (Mernar, n'r mr)

Parents: Scorpion II (possible but still uncertain)

Consort: Neithhotep (no evidence of marrying princess from upper Egypt)

Children: Hor-Aha (successor)

Reign: circa 3150-3100 BC

Burial: Chambers B17 and B18, Umm el-Qa'ab

He unified the Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt and become the first king of unified Egypt and Namer reigned over unified Egypt 3150-3100 BC. Narmer's name consists of the hieroglyphs for a catfish (n'r) and a chisel (mr), he was a successor of King Ka of Upper Egypt.