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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
He did not vilify women alone but added that "If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed." [ 184 ] [ 185 ] In 2007, Tor Erling Staff , a lawyer that works for the Supreme Court of Norway , stated that he wanted the punishment for the killing reduced from 17 years in prison to 15 years in the case of honor ...
Year 53 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Calvinus (or, less frequently, year 701 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 53 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for ...
Julius Caesar's planned invasion of the Parthian Empire was to begin in 44 BC, with the aim to conquer Dacia, much of the Middle East as well as Central Asia for the Roman Republic. The Roman dictator 's assassination that year prevented the invasion from taking place.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Munda, the remaining defeated Pompeians under the command of Annio Scapula retreated to the city of Corduba bringing news of the defeat at Munda and the death of Sextus's brother, [1] while Scapula's legionaries were further supplemented by the towns militia as well as raw recruits, conscipits, and volunteeres making the army in Corduba around 20,000 strong. [2]