Assassination of Julius Caesar
Senators kill the dictator and doom the Republic instead
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On the Ides of March, senators led by Brutus and Cassius stabbed the dictator Julius Caesar to death at a Senate meeting in the Curia of Pompey. Instead of saving the Republic, the murder unleashed new civil wars that brought Octavian to power.
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About 1,710 years passed between Hammurabi's laws and Caesar's assassination — nearly as long as separates us from the Edict of Milan of 313.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Africa
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Julius Caesar (aged 56)
- Cleopatra (aged 25)
- Augustus (aged 19)
- Cicero (aged 62)
- Herod the Great (aged 28)
- Virgil (aged 26)
- Amanirenas (aged 16)
- Livia Drusilla (aged 15)