For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Tacitus" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marcus Claudius Tacitus">Marcus Claudius Tacitus</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="./September_25#cite_note-1" id="mwEg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwEw">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFEdward_SmedleyHugh_James_RoseHenry_John_Rose1845">Edward Smedley; Hugh James Rose; Henry John Rose (1845). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MD5OAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA57" id="mwB2U" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB2Y">Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: History and biography</i></a>. B. Fellowes. p.<span id="mwB2c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>57.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwB2g" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Metropolitana%3A+History+and+biography&amp;rft.pages=57&amp;rft.pub=B.+Fellowes&amp;rft.date=1845&amp;rft.au=Edward+Smedley&amp;rft.au=Hugh+James+Rose&amp;rft.au=Henry+John+Rose&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMD5OAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA57&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+25"></span></span>