Events Tagged: "adoption"

Augustus adopts Tiberius - after deaths of preferred heirs, adopts stepson as successor, succession planned

Nerva becomes emperor - elderly senator chosen by Senate, begins Adoptive Emperors

Nerva adopts Trajan - pressured by military, establishes precedent of adopting best successor

Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius - on condition Antoninus adopts Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus

Uighur Khaganate adopts Manichaeism - becomes only state to make Manichaeism official religion

Minnesota passed world's first law sealing adoption records forever