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Caesar updated the calendar so as to minimize the number of lost days due to the prior calendar's imprecision regarding the exact amount of time in a solar year. Caesar also renamed the fifth month (also the month of his birth) in the Roman calendar July, in his honor (Roman years started in March, not January as they do under the current ...
The city of Rome, 44 BC. The conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar began with a meeting between Cassius Longinus and his brother-in-law Marcus Brutus [15] in the evening of 22 February 44 BC, [16] when after some discussion the two agreed that something had to be done to prevent Caesar from becoming king of the Romans.
Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
Ancient historians were sceptical of this possibility and "on the whole, scholars have rejected the possibility that Brutus was the love-child of Servilia and Caesar on the grounds of chronology". [ 7 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Perhaps out of a desire to avoid offending Servilia, Caesar gave orders that Brutus should not be harmed if encountered after the ...
Caesar retaliated by attacking the defenseless Celtic camp, and slaughtering the men, women, and children. Caesar claims he killed 430,000 people in the camp. Modern historians find this number impossibly high (see historiography below), but it is apparent that Caesar killed a great many Celts. [61]
Pompey's council of war decided to flee to Egypt, [2] which had in the previous year supplied him with military aid. [ 3 ] Upon his arrival in Egypt , he was murdered by Achillas and Lucius Septimius , former soldiers in his army, under the orders of the eunuch Pothinus and Theodotus of Chios , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] advisors of the King Ptolemy who ...
Caesar himself, in his Commentarii de Bello Civili, mentions few place-names; [13] and although the battle is called after Pharsalos by modern authors, four ancient writers – the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum (48.1), Frontinus (Strategemata 2.3.22), Eutropius (20), and Orosius (6.15.27) – place it specifically at Palaepharsalus ("Old ...
Caesar, Kaiser, Qaiser, Kaisar, Kayser, Keiser, Keyser Son Of Mufaddal Gari ( The son of Abbas Hammam ) Also known as Qaisar ( Arabic : قيصر ), also spelled Qaysar , [ 1 ] is the Arabic version of the name Caesar and it is used as a given name in Arabia and the Islamic world .