Visualising the lifetimes (and deaths) of major Roman Emperors

(by Reddit user: u/Western-Flatworm-537)

@infobeautiful I feel like Valerian should've died in his sleep.

@infobeautiful That's fascinating.

Just squinting at it, it feels like you either had a solid yellow bar and died of natural causes or you barely got going and met a sticky end.

@infobeautiful I don't know about many Roman emperors, but Nerva was not assassinated. He died following a stroke, a quite timely death because if he hadn't done so, he was sufficiently unpopular that assassination could well have come along later.

@RolloTreadway

Lately I'm under the impression too that most of @infobeautiful 's infographics are grossly misleading

@infobeautiful
Assassination upon taking office is rather common. Oops.
@infobeautiful Looks like your odds of being alive much longer after being crowned Emperor aren't great.