4Galba

Galba may have been the first to fill the power vacuum left by Nero’s suicide, but he was not the last. His violent, tight-fisted, and phenomenally unpopular reign lasted just 7 months from when he seized the throne in June 68 to his assassination on January 15, 69.

After his adoption by his stepmother, and before becoming emperor, he was known as Livius Ocella Sulpicius Galba.