Claudius I

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Claudius I (10 bc–ad 54) ( Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus) Roman Emperor (ad 41–54), nephew of Tiberius. As successor to Caligula, he was the first emperor chosen by the army. He had military successes in Germany, conquered Britain in ad 43, and built both the harbour of Ostia and the Claudian aqueduct. Agrippina the Younger (his fourth wife) supposedly poisoned him and made her son, Nero, emperor.