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This is my second attempt at a timeline the first one failed due to any lack of direction or motivation (something that will not be repeated in this one). So as the Title suggest this a timeline where Nero comes to power and as a result a stronger Rome. the POD is assassination of Claudius by Argippina to place Nero on the throne is discovered Argippina is executed and Nero goes into exile into Persia. This allows Britannicus to become heir to throne. Updates will be whenever i have a chance to write them (i will try to have regular schedule but i can't guarantee any thing). So please Comment. The first update will be a short one. So enjoy

The end of the Reign of Claudius



The turning point of the reign of Claudius has always been seen with historians the botched assassination attempt by his 4th wife Agrippina the Younger. The marriage was beginning to fall apart; Claudius had been considering at the time to make his other son Britannicus his heir instead of his idealistic stepson Nero. Agrippnia desperate to see that her son be placed on the throne hired Loucasta to poison the emperor. But the plot went awry one of the freedman Narcissus (who is not sent away from rome) recognized Loucasta trying to poison the food. The guard caught her and interrogate her. After a while she reveled the plot and that Agrippa was behind it. Claudius was furious and chased her to their room where he executed her on the spot and ordered that her son Nero be found and that Loucasta be executed by being torn apart and devoured by wild animals (her OTL execution). Nero had escaped; he fled east into Parthia where they provided exile for him.


A bust of the Pretender Emperor Nero

Claudius immediately demanded that they had over his stepson for execution. But Parthia denied that he was there and that he fled north in Caucasus Mountains. Claudius believed the barbarians would get him, and turned his attention on his successor Britannicus. He wanted to make up for the years abandonment he began to personally teach him law, and how to rule and empire. His new tutor Burrus taught him how be a solider, a general, and a leader of men. It is once said that Burrus said to his father “that this boy has the potential to be next Caesar or Augustus.”


A young Britannicus

The rest of Claudius reign was defined by the execution of the traitors involved in the plot (those that weren’t killed fled to Parthia) and preparing his son Britanicus for rule the empire. Then on Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus dies of a heart attack leaving the empire to his young son Britannicus. But peace Claudius had fought to maintain would not last as Nero claiming the throne, being supported by the Parthians and the rebellious general Galba, appeared in Anatolia gathering support. The two Brothers would clash in civil war that would define their times

Next chapter the reign of Britannicus, and the great British revolt and conquest of the low lands (the low countries), and southern Caledonia
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