Livia, wife of Augustus
issued under Tiberius, 22-23 CE
Æ 30mm, 13,07g
obv. draped bust of Livia to right as Salus, SALVS AVGVSTA below
rev. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVG P M TR POT XXIIII legend around SC
S.1740, RIC 47, BMC 81
59 BCE
January 30

Birth of Livia Drusilla.

43 BCE

Livia marries Tiberius Claudius Nero.

42 BCE
November 16

Tiberius born to Livia and Tiberius Claudius Nero.

40 BCE

Livia and her husband flee from Octavius and join Sextus Pompey in Sicily.

39 BCE
January 17

Octavian divorces Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, despite her being pregnant with her previous husband’s child.

35 BCE

Augustus donates a public statue to Livia. Ovid later mentions this as a great place to pick up women.

23 BCE

Death of Marcellus, nephew to Augustus. Livia is suspected of poisoning him.

4 CE
June 26

After the death of Gaius Caesar, Augustus considers making Germanicus his heir. Livia persuades him to choose Tiberius, and Augustus does so on condition that Tiberius adopt Germanicus.

9 CE

Claudius marries Plautia Urgulanilla, the granddaughter of his grandmother Livia’s close friend Urgulania.

29 CE

Death of Livia.