<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a> and L. Commodus (who changes his name to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lucius Verus">Lucius Verus</a>) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Antoninus Pius">Antoninus Pius</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_7#cite_note-1" id="mwFA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFAnthony_R_Birley2012">Anthony R Birley (6 December 2012). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CzYRFge0NnsC&amp;pg=PT15" id="mwBeI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBeM">Marcus Aurelius: A Biography</i></a>. Routledge. p.<span id="mwBeQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>15. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBeU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBeY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-134-69569-0" id="mwBec" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-69569-0"><bdi id="mwBeg">978-1-134-69569-0</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200711030347/https://books.google.com/books?id=CzYRFge0NnsC&amp;pg=PT15" id="mwBek" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 11 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBeo">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBes">7 March</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBew" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Marcus+Aurelius%3A+A+Biography&amp;rft.pages=15&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2012-12-06&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-134-69569-0&amp;rft.au=Anthony+R+Birley&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCzYRFge0NnsC%26pg%3DPT15&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+7"></span></span>