Pertinax © Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities SchemeOn this day, March 28, in A.D. 193:
The Roman emperor Pertinax (Publius Helvius Pertinax) was murdered by soldiers in the imperial residence, after less than three months in power. Pertinax had succeeded Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus.
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