<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Claudius">Claudius</a> is proclaimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Praetorian Guard">Praetorian Guard</a> after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Caligula">Caligula</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="./January_24#cite_note-1" id="mwFQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLeonhard_Schmitz1847">Leonhard Schmitz (1847). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3X0PAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA439" id="mwBrQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBrU">A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192</i></a>. Harper &amp; brothers. p.<span id="mwBrY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>439.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBrc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+History+of+Rome%3A+From+the+Earliest+Times+to+the+Death+of+Commodus%2C+A.D.+192&amp;rft.pages=439&amp;rft.pub=Harper+%26+brothers&amp;rft.date=1847&amp;rft.au=Leonhard+Schmitz&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3X0PAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA439&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+24"></span></span>