January 41 year
To 41 year behavior of Caligula left no doubt of his inadequacy. The Emperor declared himself to be God was trying to go to war with Jupiter and Neptune, terrorized the approximate and the Senate, subject them to public humiliation. All this has led to the conspiracy, which involved some of the senators and several officers of the Praetorian Guard.
Reduction of conspiracy in the execution was scheduled for the last day of the Palatine games. One of the key figures of the conspiracy was Cassius Chaerea, one of the officers Praetorian Guard. When Caligula left the theater, the conspirators drove him from the crowd and the guard and beat him with swords and daggers. Claudius, hearing the noise of the fight, hiding in the solar gallery of the palace, behind a curtain.
Running through the palace, the soldiers on behalf Grath found him behind a curtain and then lying to his feet and greeted him with the title of Emperor and led to his colleagues, who, having accomplished his plan, did not know what to do next.
Praetorians carried Claudius in his camp, opposing it to shape the Senate, who wanted to proclaim a republic. Senators gathered at the Capitol, the people crowded on the forum. By Claudia Senate sent the tribunes Veraniya and Brockham: they called him to obey the will of the Senate and threatened him with the fate of Caligula, but seeing a lot of forces surrounding Claudius, began to ask him to at least take the power from the hands of the Senate.
In the morning, seeing that the Senate began a struggle for power between Valery Asiatique and Marcus Vinicius, the people in trouble before the dominance of the aristocracy, began to demand autocrat of the Emperor. Cassius Huray, who led the night of the cohort of urban guards could not keep them from going over the side of the praetorian guards.
Learning of this, Claudius took the oath of Praetorians, to make sure promising them on 15 000 sesterces, and thus becoming the first of the Caesars that bought power for the money. Senate no choice but to Confirm the credentials of the new emperor.