A Year In History: 44

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This Year in History:

44

Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

March 15

The Ides of March

Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus on March 15. The day later became infamous as the Ides of March.  Caesar, born into the Julii, an ancient but not particularly distinguished Roman aristocratic family, began his […]