{"slug": "praetorian-prefect", "label": "Praetorian prefect", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_prefect", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692343", "qid": "Q692343", "description": "important position in ancient Rome", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [-20, 309], "span_label": ["21 BCE", "309 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Praetorian Prefect"], "related": [{"slug": "sejanus", "label": "Sejanus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "praetorian-guard", "label": "Praetorian Guard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "severus-alexander", "label": "Severus Alexander", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seine", "label": "Seine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hampshire", "label": "Hampshire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isle-of-wight", "label": "Isle of Wight", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maximian", "label": "Maximian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boulogne-sur-mer", "label": "Boulogne-sur-Mer", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantius-chlorus", "label": "Constantius Chlorus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -20, "year_label": "21 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Naevius Sutorius Macro, Roman prefect and politician (d. AD 38)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325829297#Births", "title": "21 BC", "revid": 1325829297, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 17, "year_label": "17 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Aelius Sejanus becomes Praetorian prefect.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#Roman_Empire", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 17 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 31, "year_label": "31 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus, Roman prefect and advisor (b. 20 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#31_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Deaths › 31 AD"}}, {"year": 35, "year_label": "35 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus, Roman prefect (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#35_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Births › 35 AD"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Titus Petronius Secundus, Roman prefect (d. AD 97)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Births › AD 40"}}, {"year": 97, "year_label": "97 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Titus Petronius Secundus, Roman prefect (b. AD 40)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330324646#Deaths", "title": "AD 97", "revid": 1330324646, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 180, "year_label": "180 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Quadi are chased westwards, deeper into Germania. The Praetorian prefect, Tarutenius Paternus, achieves a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305659#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 180", "revid": 1371305659, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 228, "year_label": "228 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Domitius Ulpianus, a Roman jurist and prefect, is assassinated by the Praetorian Guard, in the presence of Emperor Severus Alexander. His curtailment of the privileges of the palace guard becomes Ulpianus' downfall, who in the course of a riot at Rome is murdered, between the soldiers and the mob.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371304597#Roman_Empire", "title": "228", "revid": 1371304597, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 296, "year_label": "296 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In this or the previous year, Caesar Constantius I assembles two invasion fleets with the intent of overthrowing the usurper Allectus, who is based in Britain. The first is under the command of Asclepiodotus, Maximian's long-serving Praetorian Prefect. Asclepiodotus sails from the mouth of the Seine, and lands near the Isle of Wight, where his forces defeat Allectus in Hampshire. Allectus is killed in the fighting. Constantius leaves Boulogne with his fleet, and occupies London, where he slaughters some of Allectus' Frankish mercenaries. With this victory, the Romano-British regime first established by Carausius is overthrown, and Britain is re-incorporated into the rest of the empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267076673#Roman_Empire", "title": "296", "revid": 1267076673, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 309, "year_label": "309 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus, the Praetorian Prefect of Emperor Maxentius, defeats the usurper Domitius Alexander and purges Africa of his supporters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330161246#Roman_Empire", "title": "309", "revid": 1330161246, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}