Valerian (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname; Valerian (emperor), Roman emperor from 253 to 260; Plants. Valerian (herb), Valeriana officinalis, a medicinal plant, and the namesake for other valerians. other plants in the genus Valeriana; Centranthus, a genus containing plants closely related to Valeriana; Ships

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ k l ɔː d i ə s /; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54.A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate.He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside …

Vespasian (/ v ɛ ˈ s p eɪ ʒ (i) ən,-z i ən /; Latin: Vespasianus [wɛspasiˈaːnʊs]; 17 November AD 9 – 23/24 June 79) was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 69 to 79. The fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years. His fiscal reforms and consolidation of the empire generated …

Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna.He was born on 7 March in either Rome or Mediolanum, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of Emperor Commodus.In 198, Geta was raised to Caesar.Septimius Severus gave him the title of augustus in late 209.. During the campaign against the Britons in the early 3rd …

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (French: Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes) is a 2017 English-language French 3D space opera film written and directed by Luc Besson, and co-produced by Besson and his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla.It is based on the French science fiction comics series Valérian and Laureline, written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude …

Shapur I (also spelled Shabuhr I; Middle Persian: ????????????????????????????, romanized: Šābuhr) was the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran.The dating of his reign is disputed, but it is generally agreed that he ruled from 240 to 270, with his father Ardashir I as co-regent until the death of the latter in 242. During his co-regency, he helped his father with the conquest and ...

Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, around 482. A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), he came from a peasant family believed to have been of Illyro-Roman or of Thraco-Roman origin. The cognomen Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of adoption by his uncle Justin. During his reign, he founded Justiniana Prima not far from his …

Michael III (Greek: Μιχαήλ; 9 January 840 – 24 September 867), also known as Michael the Drunkard, was Byzantine Emperor from 842 to 867. Michael III was the third and traditionally last member of the Amorian (or Phrygian) dynasty.He was given the disparaging epithet the Drunkard (ὁ Μέθυσος) by the hostile historians of the succeeding Macedonian dynasty, but modern …

The Jiaqing Emperor (13 November 1760 – 2 September 1820), also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, born Yongyan, was the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1796 to 1820.He was the 15th son of the Qianlong Emperor.During his reign, he prosecuted Heshen, the corrupt Manchu …

Marcian (/ ˈ m ɑːr ʃ ən /; Latin: Marcianus; Greek: Μαρκιανός Markianos; c. 392 – 27 January 457) was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Very little of his life before becoming emperor is known, other than that he was a domesticus (personal assistant) who served under the commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar for fifteen years. After the death of Emperor …