Nerva

On September 18, 96, Nerva was proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian was assassinated. An excerpt from the article:

"The new emperor was born on November 8, 35 CE in the small town of Narnia in Umbria, 50 miles north of Rome. He came from a distinguished Roman family - his father was a wealthy lawyer, his grandfather had been a member of the imperial entourage at the time of Nerva's birth, his great-grandfather had been a consul in 36 BCE, and his aunt was the great-granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius. He had held a number of official positions under various emperors during both the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties, helping Emperor Nero suppress the Piso Conspiracy in 65 CE (receiving special honours, the ornamenta triumphalia) and serving as co-consul under both Vespasian and Domitian. Because of the lyric pieces he penned, Nero even recognized him as the Tibullus of his age. Unrelated to anybody before him by either marriage or blood, his ascension would usher in an era English historian Edward Gibbons called “The Five Good Emperors”- Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. It would be a time of relative peace and stability; unfortunately, it was followed by one of weak emperors and insecurity."