Caesar Assassinated: The Republic Dies With Him
A group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death on the floor of the Roman Senate, driven by fears that his accumulation of dictatorial power threatened the Republic. Rather than restoring republican government, the assassination ignited a series of civil wars that destroyed the very system the conspirators sought to preserve and gave rise to the Roman Empire under Augustus.
March 15, 44 BC
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