- Nearly lost consulship for taking so long to set up statues of murders of Nero and Drusus
- Pelted by stones and grapes if showed up late to dinner
- Became Emperor at age of 50, by accident
- Heard about murder at Hermaeum, hid behind curtain, was found and called Emperor by a Guardsman
- Ordered an amnesty of all who had to do with Caligula's death
- Instituted Circus Games on his father's birthday
- Finished the marble arch near Pompeii's theatre
- Approached the senate and consuls for certain privileges
- Sat in on trials at the magistrate's courts and sat in on games, clapping and cheering with the rest of the people
- Let himself be guided by the sense of equity
- Changed punishments of court trials if too severe or too lenient
- People found guilty of shocking crimes were fed to wild beasts
- Sometimes wise and prudent in court, sometimes thoughtless and hasty, others foolish and out of his senses
- Marched into England, almost shipwrecking himself on the way there, and reduced a large part of the island to submission.
- No battles, or suffering
- Hired fire fighters using commons from the city district after a fire in the Aemilian Quarter
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