His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days.

* 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Younger ) in the battle of Thapsus.

* 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Historians typically refer to him as simply Octavius between his birth in 63 until his posthumous adoption by Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

* As part of his actions to strengthen his political ties to Caesar's former soldiers, in 42 BC, following the deification of Caesar, Octavian added Divi Filius ( Son of the Divine ) to his name, becoming Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius.

* In 38 BC, Octavian replaced his praenomen " Gaius " and nomen " Julius " with Imperator, the title by which troops hailed their leader after military success, officially becoming Imperator Caesar Divi Filius

His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

Upon his adoption, Octavius assumed his great-uncle's name, Gaius Julius Caesar.

| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ; Octavian ; Gaius Octavius Thurinus

* 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

The first direct Roman contact came when the Roman general and future dictator, Julius Caesar, made two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC as an offshoot of his conquest of Gaul, believing the Britons had been helping the Gallic resistance.

The Roman Republic annexed southern Gaul as the province of Gallia Narbonensis in the late 2nd century BC, and Roman forces under Julius Caesar conquered the rest of Gaul in the Gallic Wars of 58 – 51 BC.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

The first known reference to the territory in modern Luxembourg was by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War.

By and large, the Treveri were more co-operative with the Romans, who completed their occupation in 53 BC under Julius Caesar, than most Gallic tribes.

After the Gallic Wars, Monoecus, which served as a stopping-point for Julius Caesar on his way to campaign in Greece, fell under Roman control as part of the Maritime Alps province ( Gallia Transalpina ).

When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Gallic tribes in Normandy.

* Julius Caesar, The Gallic War

Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars ( 54 BC ).

Vercingetorix ( or ; ); 82 BC – 46 BC ) was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.

Having been appointed governor of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ( modern Provence ) in 58 BC, Julius Caesar proceeded to conquer the Gallic tribes beyond over the next few years, maintaining control through a careful divide and rule strategy.

In his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar distinguishes among three ethnic groups in Gaul: the Belgae in the north ( roughly between Rhine and Seine ), the Celts in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized by the Romans.

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.

Its political origin is traced to the ancient Gallic state of the Andes, on the lines of which was organized, after the conquest by Julius Caesar, the Roman civitas of the Andecavi.

The novel follows two fictional Gallic nobles who join Julius Caesar's cavalry then find their way into the service of Marcus ' son, Publius Licinius Crassus, in Gaul.

Commentarii de Bello Gallico () is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.

*" The Gallic Wars By Julius Caesar " ( menu page linking 8 books ), translated by W. A.

In the course of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul ( 58-51 BC ), the Remi allied themselves with the Romans, and by their fidelity throughout the various Gallic insurrections secured the special favour of the imperial power.

* Last year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:

* August 22 or August 26 – Julius Caesar commands the first Roman invasion of Britain, likely a reconnaissance-in-force expedition, in response to the Britons giving military aid to his Gallic enemies.

* First year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:

Likewise, the Rus passed by the name of Ruteni, the form being influenced by one of the Gallic tribes mentioned by Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar's military action against the Helvetians advancing towards Gaul on the territory of today's Ain marked the beginning of the Gallic Wars.

In the time of Julius Caesar there was a Gallic village named Bibrax where the Remis ( inhabitants of the country round Reims ) had to meet the onset of the confederated Belgae.