Augustus

== Succession==

Augustus' plans for sucession rested on Julia's marriage to Agrippa. After Augustus' near death experience in 23, he determined Agrippa to divorce his current wife, marry Julia, and adopt the marriage's sons as his own heirs. He gave tribunicia potestas to Agrippa, a practice that would hereafter mark those the emperor had earmarked for succesions. After the marriage produced two children, Gaius and Lucius, everything seemed to be working. Both of his adopted sons died young so that by 2 BC both were dead.

The death of Agrippa soon afer his son's death meant that Tiberius would again be brought back into the sunlight after his retreat from Rome to Rhodes after becoming disgusted with his father's promotion of Lucius.

Augustus, after exhausting all other options, adopted Tiberius as his son in 3AD, and gave him tribunicia potestas and imperium.

Death (14AD)

 * Augustus dies in 14 AD, after being very ill, in the town of Nola while he was traveling throughout Italy.
 * "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit."
 * An enormous funeral procession walks his body back to Rome
 * He is cremated near the Mausoleum Augustum, and his ashes are stored there
 * he is declared a god after his death