Daily Archives for 11 March 2013


March 11: Elagabalus Assassinated

On 11 March 222 CE, Emperor Elagabalus was assassinated by the Roman army and drug through the streets of Rome, after which he was buried in a timber pile. Elagabalus became Roman emperor at the age of 14 after his grandmother Julia Maesa had the Roman army execute Marcus Opellius Macrinus so that she could […]