The death under mysterious circumstances of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Caesar_Britannicus" id="mwFw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus">Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus</a>, heir to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nero">Nero</a> to become Emperor.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_11#cite_note-2" id="mwGg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGw">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFDominic_Sandbrook">Dominic Sandbrook. "Nero assassinates his stepbrother". <i id="mwCCA">BBC History</i> (February 2020): 12.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwCCE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+History&amp;rft.atitle=Nero+assassinates+his+stepbrother&amp;rft.issue=February+2020&amp;rft.pages=12&amp;rft.au=Dominic+Sandbrook&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+11"></span></span>