Julius Caesar was murdered in the Roman Senate House by a group of nobles on March 15, 44 bce. The assassination plot was led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, and it reportedly involved some 60 men. The conspirators claimed that Caesar’s accumulation of power, including his appointment as dictator, threatened the Roman Republic. Caesar was stabbed an estimated 23 times, though a physician’s report claimed that only one wound was fatal. His death marked a turning point in Roman history, contributing to the end of the republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. Caesar’s assassination later inspired the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar, which popularized the phrase “beware the Ides of March,” a reference to March 15.
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