Julius Caesar Assassinated

The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by forty Roman senators, self styled the Liberatores, whom led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar to death in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March (March 15) 44 BC. Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Senate. This declaration had resulted in several senators fearing that Caesar's ambition was to overthrow the Senate in favour of a tyranny. The ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators' civil war, the dissolution of the Republic which was replaced by the Roman Empire, and the ascendancy of Caesar's adopted heir Octavian to the position of emperor.

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