** April – Siege of Dyrrhachium, Caesar builds a fortified line of entrenchments and besiege Pompey.

** Summer – Siege of Alesia: Caesar spread out his legions around the " oppidum " and builds a string of fortifications.

** Caesar builds an 19-mile earthwork, complete with fortifications and watchtowers, between Lake Geneva and the Jura Mountains.

Antony withdrew, unwilling to become the subject of a double circumvallation as Caesar had done to Vercingetorix at Alesia.

To guarantee a perfect blockade, Caesar ordered the construction of an encircling set of fortifications, called a circumvallation, around Alesia.

But Caesar issued orders that nothing should be done for these civilians and the women and children were left to starve in the no man's land between the city walls and the circumvallation.

Caesar ordered a wall to be built around Pompey's position in order to cut off water and pasture land for his horses.

Caesar turned around quickly and caught Casca by the arm.

In his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentaries on the Gallic War ), Caesar describes how at the Battle of Alesia the Roman legions created two huge fortified walls around the city.

In the Battle of Alesia ( September, 52 BC ), Caesar built a fortification around the city to besiege it.

According to Plutarch, Vercingetorix surrendered in dramatic fashion, riding his beautifully adorned horse out of Alesia and around Caesar's camp before dismounting in front of Caesar, stripping himself of his armor and sitting down at his opponent's feet, where he remained motionless until he was taken away.

The name of the group came from Sid Caesar, who, if a joke didn't go over, or played worse than expected, would attribute it to " the kids in the hall ", referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.

His other daughter, Cornelia, married Julius Caesar around 84 BC and died in 69 BC after bearing a daughter Julia.

But Caesar compares himself to the Northern Star, and perhaps it would be foolish not to consider him as the axial character of the play, around whom the entire story turns.

The 2009 movie Me and Orson Welles, based on a book of the same name by Robert Kaplow, is a fictional story centred around Orson Welles ' famous 1937 production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theatre.

It was somewhere in the area around Nemossos where the Arverni chieftain Vercingetorix ( later to head a unified Gallic resistance to Roman invasion under Julius Caesar ) was born in around 72 BC.

That year two supremely dramatic events were witnessed by the Forum, perhaps the most famous ever to transpire there: Marc Antony's funeral oration for Caesar ( immortalized in Shakespeare's famous play ) was delivered from the partially completed speaker's platform known as the New Rostra and the public burning of Caesar's body occurred on a site directly across from the Rostra around which the Temple to the Deified Caesar was subsequently built by his great-nephew Octavius ( Augustus ).

In what was now his city he went on with the nine tempera pictures of the Triumphs of Caesar, which he had probably begun before his leaving for Rome, and which he finished around 1492.

* Juliénas-This cru is based around the village named after Julius Caesar.

The Circus was supposed to date to the city's earliest times, but it was rebuilt by Julius Caesar around 50 BC so that it had a length of about and a width of about.

They were ordered to Cisalpine Gaul around 58 BC by Julius Caesar, and marched with him throughout the entire Gallic Wars.

Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).

Legio tertia Gallica ( Third Gallic legion ) was a Roman legion levied by Julius Caesar around 49 BC, for his civil war against the conservative republicans led by Pompey.

Having been married to Claudia Appia, about whom little is known, he divorced her and around 3 AD married Aemilia Lepida, daughter of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and sister of Manius Aemilius Lepidus, who had originally been betrothed to Lucius Caesar.

Other buildings were made: the Theatre of Marcellus, the temple for Isis ( from around the time of Caligula ), the baths and bridge by Nero and Pompey's Theatre where Julius Caesar was murdered by Marcus Brutus.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

Julius Caesar was checked by Vercingetorix at a siege of Gergorvia, a fortified town in the center of Gaul.

Caesar pillages and burns Cenabum, the town attacked earlier by the Carnutes.

Caesar then sets out for the town of Gergovia.

The town center was situated on the nearby hills, but it was then moved to its current location by order of Julius Caesar, who had the swamp near the southern tip of the lake drained and laid the plan of the walled city in the typical Roman grid of perpendicular streets.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by Julius Caesar ( B. G. ii.

Caesar attempted to build a wall separating Afranius ' camp from the town of Ilerda.

In historic times the town was first recorded in the journals of Julius Caesar, in his commentaries detailing his conquest of Gaul, as the largest town of the Sequani, a smaller Gaulic tribe ; Caesar gave the name of the town as Vesontio ( possibly Latinized ), and mentions that a wooden palisade surrounded it.

According to locals, Casar was originally named Caesar, but when application was made to the US Postal Service for recognition, the name was misspelled and the town officially became Casar.

Meledunum began as a Gaulish town ; Caesar noted Melun as " a town of the Senones, situated on an island in the Seine "; at the island there was a wooden bridge, which his men repaired.

In the Volscian territory lay the little town of Velitrae ( modern Velletri ), the home town of the ancestors of Caesar Augustus.

The town was given the name of Caesaromagus ( the market place of Caesar ), although the reason for it being given the great honour of bearing the Imperial prefix is now unclear – possibly as a failed ' planned town ' provincial capital to replace Londinium or Camulodunum.

Numerous notable people were born in the town including: James Oglethorpe ( born 1696 ), founder of the colony of Georgia ; Julius Caesar ( born 1830 ), cricketer ; Aldous Huxley ( born 1894 ), writer ; Nick Clarke ( born 1948 ), radio journalist and presenter ; and Mick Mills ( born 1949 ), footballer.

The Roman emperor Caesar Augustus made the city a colony for veterans of his legions following the Battle of Actium, proclaiming it a civitas libera ( free town ).

With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to lay down his military command and return to Rome.

Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell ; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenceless on the lower steps of the portico.

** January 1 – The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously.

* The Senate refuses Julius Caesar permission to stand for consul in absentia, and demands that he lay down his command.

* Pompey demands that Julius Caesar lay down his command before he can stand for consul.

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And when the senate was separated, Antony and Caesar went out, with Herod between them ; while the consul and the rest of the magistrates went before them, in order to offer sacrifices the Roman gods, and to lay the decree in the Capitol.

In addition Pompey's fleet, commanded by Caesar's former junior consul Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, lay between Caesar and Greece.

Eventually, Bibulus confined himself to his home and pronounced unfavorable omens in an attempt to lay the legal groundwork for the later repeal of Caesar ’ s consular acts.

And Julius Caesar, when ordered by the Senate to lay down his command and return to Rome to face misconduct charges, would instead lead one of his legions across the Rubicon in 49 BC.

Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell ; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico.

Despite an urgent plea from the Spirit of Rome to lay down his arms, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, rallies his troops and marches south to Rome, joined by Curio along the way.

According to Strabo ( Geographia, v 1 ), at the beginning the name indicated the land between the strait of Messina and the line connecting the gulf of Salerno and gulf of Taranto ; later Italia was extended to include the whole Italian peninsula, as well as the Istrian town of Colonia Pietas Iulia ( Pola ); finally, Julius Caesar gave Roman citizenship to the people of the Gallia Transpadana — that part of Cisalpine Gaul that lay " beyond the Po "—, thus extending Italia up to the Alps.

** January 1, The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus should lay down their commands simultaneously.