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When and where was Julius Caesar assassinated?

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Statue of Julius Caesar in Roman military attire stands in front of a domed building in Rome, Italy, with a clear blue sky in the background. — Julius Caesar Julius Caesar, bronze sculpture in Rome.

Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate House on March 15, 44 BCE, a date famously known as the Ides of March.12

The assassination was carried out by a group of approximately 60 nobles, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, who believed that Caesar’s consolidation of power as dictator posed a direct threat to the Roman Republic. This act of political violence, while intended to preserve the Republic, ultimately served as a catalyst for its collapse and the subsequent rise of the Roman Empire.1