Rise to power
Claudia nobody ever prepared to perform his duties as ruler. However, his employment history and rhetoric in childhood and adolescence, communication with the outstanding intellects of the time, and historical examples of rulers, of which he was well aware, made him the emperor, who came to power by chance, but during his rule is fully concentrated it in their hand, has won several military campaigns, very substantially expanded the boundaries of the Roman Empire, and became the second, from the time of Augustus, the ruler who was deified after death.
Management, he began with his penalty conspirators directly involved in the murder of Caligula - Huray, Magnifier and Sabine. Then he commanded to bury all that was said and done in the days of the coup, and he followed this rule strictly.
Also, Claudius paid divine honors Libya Drusilla, equal to those which were in August. All the rest were unjustly forgotten and besmirched the reign of Caligula's relatives, living and dead, he was rehabilitated and appointed them to various honors. Those who have served their sentences, were rescued from prison and returned to the links. All orders of Caligula were canceled, but the day of his coming to power, Claudius considered the day the death of his predecessor, and the celebration of this day banned