Assassination of Julius Caesar
Caesar is killed in the Senate on the Ides of March 44 BCE by senators seeking to restore the Republic. The result was the opposite: fourteen further years of civil war ending in a monarchy that was more thorough than anything Caesar had held.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Gaius Julius Caesar · person · Rome, Gaul, Egypt · not located
- Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus) · person · Rome and the provinces · not located
- Rome · city · Italy
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Monumentum Ancyranum)
Augustus's own account of his achievements, in Latin and Greek, listing offices, benefactions, conquests and the claim that he 'transferred the state to the free disposal of the Senate and People'. It is the founding document of the Principate's self-presentation and simultaneously a piece of political advocacy, not a neutral record.
Cambridge University Press (critical edition, A. E. Cooley, 2009); inscription at Ankara, Turkey · composed by 14 CE; inscribed copies 1st c. CE · Partly verified
Res Gestae Divi Augusti, principal copy on the Temple of Rome and Augustus, Ankara; critical edition A. E. Cooley, 'Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation, and Commentary', Cambridge, 2009
Recorded on Gaius Julius Caesar
- Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
- Construction of the Via Appia begins
- The Punic Wars
- The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
- Battle of Actium
- Assassination of Julius Caesar
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon
- Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
- Dedication of Constantinople
- Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
- Alaric's Goths sack Rome
- Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
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- Alaric's Goths sack Rome · 0410-08-24
- Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I · 0395
- Dedication of Constantinople · 0330-05-11
- Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre · 0080
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon · -0049-01-10
- Battle of Actium · -0031-09-02
- The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus · -0027