Nero had organized.

Reign, decline and fall

Overthrow of Galba

On 1 January 69, the day Galba took the office of consul alongside Titus Vinius, the fourth and first Germanica legions of Germania Superior refused to swear loyalty to the emperor. They toppled the statues of Galba and demanded that a new emperor be chosen. On the following day, the soldiers

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