As was typical of Caesar he gambled and began discreetly thinning his already depleted ranks of men then repositioned them as a fourth line to support his cavalry against the inevitable assault by the much larger Pompeian cavalry.

The name was then changed by Augustus to honor Julius Caesar, who was born in July.

He then returned east, to challenge Pompey in Greece where in July 48 BC at Dyrrhachium Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat.

In Rome, Caesar was appointed dictator, with Mark Antony as his Master of the Horse ( second in command ); Caesar presided over his own election to a second consulship and then, after eleven days, resigned this dictatorship.

Caesar then pursued Pompey to Egypt, where Pompey was soon murdered.

Caesar then became involved with an Egyptian civil war between the child pharaoh and his sister, wife, and co-regent queen, Cleopatra.

The Forum of Caesar, with its Temple of Venus Genetrix, was then built, among many other public works.

Caesar then increased the number of magistrates who were elected each year, which created a large pool of experienced magistrates, and allowed Caesar to reward his supporters.

Caesar then cried to Cimber, " Why, this is violence!

To prevent this occurrence Caesar bribed the plebeian tribune Curio to use his veto to prevent a senatorial decree which would deprive Caesar of his armies and provincial command, and then made sure Antony was elected tribune for the next term of office.

Caesar then accepted him into his inner circle and made him governor of Gaul when he left for Africa in pursuit of Cato and Metellus Scipio.

* 44 BC: Murdered Caesar with other liberatores ; went to Athens and then to Crete.

Seeing this, Caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy ’ s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back.

Caesar then sets out for the town of Gergovia.

Caesar then went back to Gergovia and realised that his siege would fail.

The legion that Pompey contributes is his in name only, because it was enlisted in Caesar's territory, and then Caesar contributed another legion that had been with him previously in Gaul.

Ptolemy is killed ; Caesar then relieves his besieged forces in Alexandria.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

** May – Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430, 000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine Rivers.

He has beaten them in fair and unfair fights ; he has outmaneuvered them into hopelessness ; he has cajoled them to declaim their positions and accept his mastery ; he has appeased them, allied with them, and then absorbed them, leaving only Caesar standing alone, in the place an opponent was.

Welles's Julius Caesar opened at the Comedy Theater in the fall of 1937, and then was transferred to the National Theater on West 41st Street, later renamed the Nederlander Theater.

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.

After her funeral, in the spring or early summer of 69 BC, Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Spain.

After spending the first months of 47 BC in Egypt, Caesar went to the Middle East, where he annihilated the king of Pontus ; his victory was so swift and complete that he mocked Pompey's previous victories over such poor enemies.

Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca, and fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off.

The following day, the Ides of March, he went down to warn the dictator but the Liberatores reached Caesar first and he was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC.

Julius Caesar mentions in his Gallic Wars that those Celts who wanted to make a close study of druidism went to Britain to do so.

In the Civil Wars ( 49-45 BC ) Dolabella at first took the side of Pompey, but afterwards went over to Julius Caesar, and was present when Caesar prevailed at the Battle of Pharsalus ( 48 BC ).

Pliny went on to note that Apelles ' painting of Pankaspe as Venus was later " dedicated by Augustus in the shrine of his father Caesar.

He was originally chosen to play Julius Caesar in Cleopatra ( 1963 ) and filmed scenes in London, but when the film was postponed he withdrew ; the role instead went to Rex Harrison.

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 defence of the identification of the group as the Domitii Ahenobarbi and of the boy as Gnaeus, Pollini has pointed out that Suetonius specifically mentions that Nero's father went " to the East on the staff of the young Gaius Caesar ".

Dandy characters often went by Zip Coon, after the song popularized by George Washington Dixon, although others had pretentious names like Count Julius Caesar Mars Napoleon Sinclair Brown.

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.

At first a strong supporter of Pompey, he quarrelled with him, and went over to Caesar, whom he had previously attacked.

* Marcus Claudius M. f. ( M. n .) Marcellus Aeserninus, quaestor in Hispania in 48 BC, he was sent by Gaius Cassius Longinus to put down a revolt at Corduba, but joined the revolt and went over to Caesar, placing his legions under the command of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Servilia may still have had influence over both Cato and her son, Brutus, at that time, but in 49 BC had to experience that, when civil war broke out, Cato left Rome to side with Pompey the Great, despite her relationship with Caesar, and even Brutus, although he resented Pompey for the death of his father, went too.

Many, such as Julius Caesar, went on to hold consulships during their time as pontifex maximus.

Still outnumbered, Caesar recovered and went on to decisively defeat the Optimates under Pompey at Pharsalus.

* Aulus Baebius, an eques of Asta, in Hispania, deserted the Pompeian party in the Spanish War, and went over to Caesar, in 45 BC.

Caesar went wherever he was needed, giving only essential orders and eventually found himself on the left wing with legion X.

After encouraging legion X, Caesar went to the right wing.