Chronology
Pliny the Younger
by H.M. Kingery, from Selected Letters of Pliny (Chicago: Scott, Forsman & Co. 1911), p. 30.
Note. The interrogation point (?) indicates uncertainty in the date.
NERO emperor since Oct. 13, 54. His wife Octavia divorced, banished and killed. Poppaea married.
Death of Sulla, Plautus and Burrus; retirement of Seneca.
The apostle Paul a prisoner in Rome.
Pliny born early in the year at Comum.
Great fire in Rome, followed by a persecution of the Christians.
Conspiracy of Piso discovered. Many famous men put to death, among them Seneca and Lucan.
Death of Petronius and of Thrasea. Poppaea dead.
Spanish poet Martial comes to Rome.
Rebellion and defeat of Vindex. Verginius Rufus refuses imperial power.
Nero killed in June. GALBA emperor.
Quintilian comes to Rome.
Galba and his adopted son Piso killed Jan. 15.
OTHO emperor; his suicide in April.
VITELLIUS emperor; killed in December.
VESPASIAN emperor.
Titus takes and destroys Jerusalem.
Pliny, on his father's death (?), placed under the guardianship of his uncle and Verginius Rufus.
Vespasian died June 23. TITUS emperor.
Eruption of Vesuvius Aug. 24; death of the older Pliny.
Pliny Jr. inherits his name and estates.
Pliny's first argument in court (?).
Titus died Sept. 13. DOMITIAN emperor.
Pliny's military service in Syria (?).
Ludi Saeculares. Tacitus praetor (?).
Pliny quaestor, June 1, 89–May 31, 90.
Quintilian retires as teacher.
Pliny trib. pl., Dec. 91–Dec. 92.
Pliny praetor. With Herennius Senecio he prosecutes Baebius Massa.
Pliny praefectus aerarii militaris (possibly in 95).
Domitian killed Sept. 18. NERVA emperor.
Death of Verginius Rufus and of Pliny's second (?) wife.
Attack on Publicius Certus.
Tacitus cos. suff.
Pliny's letters, book 1, published.
Nerva died Jan. 25. TRAJAN emperor on the German frontier till 99.
Pliny, with Cornutus Tertullus, praefectus aerarii Saturni.
In Jan. Pliny and Tacitus prosecuted Marius Priscus.
Sept. 1 Pliny and Cornutus coss. suff.
The Panegyricus.
Martial returns to Spain (?).
Pliny prosecuted Caecilius Classicus (?).
Pliny augur. Defended Julius Bassus (both, perhaps, in 104).
Pliny curator alvei Tiberis, etc. Defended Varenus (both, perhaps, 106).
Pliny legatus pro praetore consulari potestate to Pontus and Bithynia. Possibly earlier.
The correspondence regarding the Christians (?).
Pliny died (?).