Terrorist attack

assassination of Julius Caesar

13 Mar 44 BCE · 41.90° N, 12.48° E

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13 Mar 44 BCE
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Terrorist attack
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41.90° N, 12.48° E

Assassination of Julius Caesar

44 BC murder in Rome

Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, by a group of senators during a Senate session at the Curia of Pompey, located within the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. The conspirators, numbering 60 individuals and led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, stabbed Caesar approximately 23 times.

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