Caesar Assassinated: The Republic Dies With Him
A group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death on the floor of the Roman Senate, driven by fears that his accumulation of dictatorial power threatened the Republic. Rather than restoring republican government, the assassination ignited a series of civil wars that destroyed the very system the conspirators sought to preserve and gave rise to the Roman Empire under Augustus.
March 15, 44 BC
Key Figures & Places
44 BC
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Assassination of Julius Caesar
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Julius Caesar
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Dictator
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Roman Republic
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Ides of March
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Assassination of Julius Caesar
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Julius Caesar
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Roman dictator
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Roman Republic
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Ides of March
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Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus
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Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 200 BC)
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Philip V of Macedon
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Second Macedonian War
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44 a. C.
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Fêtes religieuses romaines
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Ides
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Mars (mythologie)
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Arès
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Martius (mois)
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Theater des Pompeius
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Rome
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Marcus Junius Brutus
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Gaius Cassius Longinus
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Roman Senate
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Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
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Pompey
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Sextus Pompey
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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (son of Pompey)
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Battle of Munda
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100 a.C.
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قبل الميلاد
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