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Named Dictator perpetuo ( dictator in perpetuity )
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Julius Ceasar was assasinated
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49 B.C - 44B.C
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Julian calendar goes into effect.
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Ceasar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the younger in the Battle of Munda.
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Ceasar defeats second in command Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. About 1/3 of his army was killed
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Ceasar defeats combined army of Pomppeian followers. Cato commits suicide.
After he is accorded the office of Dictator for the next ten years. -
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Ceasar defeated the Ptolemaic forces in the Battle of Nile and put Cleopatra as ruler.
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Ceasar and Cleopatra never married because they could not do so under Roman Law. He had an affair with her tho. They had something going on together. They had a son.
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Julius barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia, he retreats to Thessaly.
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Javelins and Swords were used in this battle.
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Defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
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The Roman Senate recieves a proposal from Julius Ceasar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously. The Senate responds and says that Ceasar must surrender his command.
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Julius leads his army across the Rubicon, which seperates his jurisdiction from that of the Senate , an thus initiated a civil war.
