Caesar’s Rise and Assassination
Also called: Assassination of Julius Caesar, Ides of March
Having conquered Gaul, Caesar won a civil war and became dictator for life, but was assassinated in a meeting of the Senate on 15 March 44 BC by Brutus and others who sought to save the republic.
Vincenzo Camuccini · Public domain · Source
In 60 BC Caesar joined Pompey and Crassus in the First Triumvirate against the Senate. From 58 BC he conquered Gaul (roughly modern France), winning great fame and a loyal army. In 57 BC, while the Gallic campaigns were under way, Bak Hyeokgeose is said to have founded Silla in the south-east of the Korean peninsula.
After Crassus died and Pompey sided with the Senate, Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC — “the die is cast” — marched on Rome and won the civil war. As dictator for life he introduced the solar Julian calendar and extended citizenship to provincials, among other reforms. But Brutus, Cassius and others, suspecting that he meant to make himself king, stabbed him to death at a meeting of the Senate on 15 March 44 BC.
The republic did not revive after his death. His adopted son Octavian, through the Second Triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus, gathered power into his own hands and founded the empire.