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The Death of Caesar, painted by Vincenzo Camuccini in the early 1800s.Image: Vincenzo Camuccini · Public domainpolitics · Europe
Julius Caesar is murdered on the Ides of March
On the Ides of March, 15 March 44 BC, a group of Roman senators led by Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius stabbed Julius Caesar to death at a meeting of the Senate in the hall attached to Pompey’s theatre. Ancient writers counted 23 wounds. The conspirators said they were saving the Republic from a man who had made himself dictator for life. Instead his murder set off years of civil war, which ended with Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian ruling alone as Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ides of March ↗
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