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Rh {| align=center width=400 Otho dispatches an advance-guard under Annius Gallus and Spurinna. Otho starts for the Po with Suetonius Paulinus, Marius Celsus, and Proculus. Titianus left in charge of Rome. Otho sends fleet to Narbonese Gaul, and orders Illyric Legions to concentrate at Aquileia. Spurinna repulses Caecina from Placentia. Otho's main army joins Gallus at Bedriacum. Titianus summoned to take nomial command. Valens joins Caecina at Cremona
 * colspan=2 | a.d. 69. ||
 * | February || || | over the Great St. Bernard with Legio XXI Rapax and detachments of IV Macedonica and XXII Primigenia: Valens through Gaul and over Mount Genèvre with Legio V Alaudae and detachments of I Italica, XV Primigenia, and XVI.
 * | March ||
 * Caecina crosses the Alps.
 * | March ||
 * Caecina crosses the Alps.
 * Caecina crosses the Alps.
 * rowspan=4 | April ||  | 6.
 * Battle of Locus Castorum. Caecina defeated.
 * Battle of Locus Castorum. Caecina defeated.
 * | 15.
 * Battle of Bedriacum. Othonian defeat.
 * | 17.
 * Otho commits suicide at Brixellum.
 * | 19.
 * Vitellius recognized by the Senate.
 * rowspan=2 | May ||
 * Vitellius greeted by his own and Otho's generals at Lyons.
 * | 24.
 * Vitellius visits the battle-field of Bedriacum.
 * | June ||
 * Vitellius moves slowly towards Rome with a huge retinue.
 * | July || | 1.
 * Vespasian, Governor of Judaea, proclaimed Emperor at Alexandria.
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 * | June ||
 * Vitellius moves slowly towards Rome with a huge retinue.
 * | July || | 1.
 * Vespasian, Governor of Judaea, proclaimed Emperor at Alexandria.
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 * Vespasian, Governor of Judaea, proclaimed Emperor at Alexandria.
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