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.

Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.

** Marcus Junius Silanus potential rival to Nero poisoned.

After seemingly destroying all his enemies and bringing peace to Rome he was assassinated by friends in a conspiracy organized by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

In 109 BC, they defeated a Roman army under the consul Marcus Junius Silanus, who was the commander of Gallia Narbonensis.

He had his father-in-law Marcus Junius Silanus and his brother-in-law Marcus Lepidus executed as well.

But the underlying political conflicts had not been resolved, and on the Ides of March ( 15 March ) 44 BC, Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.

Caesar also wrote that if Octavian died before Caesar did, Marcus Junius Brutus would be the next heir in succession.

Tarquinius ' other daughter, Tarquinia, married Marcus Junius Brutus ( father of Lucius Junius Brutus ).

* 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

Casca, Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.

When they knew that Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius were assembling an army in order to march on Rome, Antony, Octavian and Lepidus allied in November 43 BC, forming the Second Triumvirate to stop Caesar's assassins.

His heirs Mark Antony and Octavian confronted the assassins of Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius, at the Battle of Philippi in the plain to the west of the city during October in 42 BC.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

* Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him

* Gaius Antonius is defeated by Marcus Junius Brutus at Dyrrachium, Brutus proceeds to secure his position in Thrace and Macedonia.

* June – Porcia Catonis, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus ( b. 70 BC ) ( alternative date is July )

* Junia Tertia, wife of Gaius Cassius Longinus and sister of Marcus Junius Brutus

* Consuls are Decimus Valerius Asiaticus and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus.

* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.

* Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman politician ( 85 – 42 BC )

Marcus Junius Brutus ( early June, 85 BC – late October, 42 BC ), often referred to as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

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

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

Portrait of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

Portrait of Sir Francis Drake by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger | Marcus Gheeraerts, 1591.

Nero's mother was Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of Caesar Augustus and his wife Scribonia through their daughter Julia the Elder and her husband Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

* Marcus Aurelius marries Faustina the Younger, a daughter of Antoninus Pius.

Brutus the Younger, Marcus

* Empress Faustina the Younger accompanies her husband, Marcus Aurelius, on various military campaigns and enjoys the love of the Roman soldiers.

He was the son of the reigning emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and Aurelius ' first cousin, Faustina the Younger.

Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder ; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Seneca the Younger.

Anne of Denmark, attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

His partner is Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger.

Messalina was the first daughter and second child of Domitia Lepida the Younger and her first cousin Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus.

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

Caesar's agrarian law was carried through, and the Triumviri then proceeded to allow the demagogue Publius Clodius Pulcher's election as tribune of the people, successfully ridding themselves both of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Cato the Younger, both adamant opponents of the Triumviri.

* Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger — Julius Caesar's friend and most famous assassin.

* Domitia Lepida the Younger ( PIR < sup > 2 </ sup > D 180 )-She first married her cousin, the consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus to whom she bore a daughter, the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.

Marcus Porcius Cato ( 234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC ) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius ( the Censor ), Sapiens ( the Wise ), Priscus ( the Ancient ), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.

Even then, " her care for mankind continues and the world can rejoice in the warmth of her daughter Proserpina: in Imperial flesh, Proserpina is Faustina the Younger ", empress-wife of Pius ' successor Marcus Aurelius.

*** Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger

**** Cato the Younger " Cato of Utica " or " Cato Minor " ( Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95BC – 46BC ), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity

***** Marcus Porcius Cato ( II ), son of Cato the Younger, fell at the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC