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Vespasian dedicates the Temple of Peace complex in Rome around 75 CE

Around 75 CE Vespasian’s Temple of Peace (Templum Pacis) was dedicated as a dated forum-temple complex displaying spoils and libraries. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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Around 75 CE Vespasian’s Temple of Peace (Templum Pacis) was dedicated as a dated forum-temple complex displaying spoils and libraries.

Context

Architecture after civil war is cohesion theatre. Britannica and Fordham’s Suetonius sourcebook independently place the Peace temple under Vespasian. Judaean spoils displays keep the conquest link honest.

Vespasian’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 9–79 CE. Surviving public files are Suetonius, Tacitus, Josephus, coins, and encyclopedias. Vespasian did not typeset LacusCurtius. Later museums are evidence, not acts. Suetonian jokes are not automatic Facts.

Why it matters

Social-cohesion path via public building. High confidence on the complex.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vespasian

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He funded and dedicated the Templum Pacis. Architects and spoils displays share the complex.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactVespasian dedicates the Temple of Peace complex in Rome around 75 CE
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 75 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Fordham Sourcebook — Suetonius on VespasianFordham University · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — VespasianEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Fordham’s Suetonius Vespasian page independently describe the Temple of Peace under Vespasian.

Established: Templum Pacis belongs to Vespasian’s building programme around 75. Not established: that civil hatred ended.

Vespasian did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Temple of Peace is not the amphitheatre. Keep 75 off the Colosseum initiation row.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVespasian
  2. contributed toFactVespasian dedicates the Temple of Peace complex in Rome around 75 CE
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Vespasian dedicates the Temple of Peace complex in Rome around 75 CE. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ves-temple-of-peace-0075

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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