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Otho
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Otho

Roman emperor

Born 28 April AD 32 · died 16 April AD 69, aged 36
Also known as Marcus Salvius Otho, Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus, Nero Otho

Who was alive at the same time as Otho?

  1. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  2. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  3. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  4. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  5. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  6. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  7. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  8. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  9. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  10. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  11. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  12. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  13. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  14. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  15. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  16. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  17. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  19. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  20. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  21. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  22. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  23. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  24. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113

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When Otho was born, Saint Peter was 31 or 32, Caligula was 19, Tiberius was 72, Vespasian was 22 and Claudius was 40.

When Otho died, Trajan was 15, Vespasian was 59, Titus was 29, Domitian was 17 and Pope Linus was 58 or 59.

Born during Otho’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus, Pliny the Younger and Domitian.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid died about 15 years before Otho was born, Livy died about 15 years before Otho was born, Strabo died about 8 years before Otho was born and Hadrian was born about 7 years after Otho died.

What happened in Otho’s lifetime

Where Otho’s contemporaries were born

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The 59 best-known contemporaries

59 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Otho. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 51.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  9. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  10. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  14. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  16. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  19. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  20. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  22. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  23. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  24. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  25. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  26. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  27. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  28. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  29. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  30. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  31. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  32. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  33. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  34. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  35. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  36. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  37. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  38. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  39. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  40. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  41. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  42. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  43. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  44. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  45. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  46. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  47. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  48. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  49. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  50. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  51. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  52. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  53. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  54. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  55. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  56. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  57. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  58. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  59. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120