40s BC Chr.

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Events

• January 10, 49 BC BC : Gaius Iulius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon and plunges Rome into civil war .
• August 9, 48 BC BC : Battle of Pharsalus . Caesar triumphs over the army of the Senate under Pompey . He fled to Egypt and was murdered there.
• 46 BC BC : Caesar reforms the Roman calendar and replaces it with the so-called Julian calendar . To bring the new calendar into line with the position of the sun, the year 46 BC was added. Extended to 15 months (= 445 days).
• 46 BC Chr .: Caesar discovers the function of money as a means of power . For the first time a living Roman citizen is immortalized on a coin . Until then, only historical events were depicted for propaganda purposes . The new coins make a decisive contribution to the dictator's personality cult .
• 45 BC BC : Gaius Julius Caesar becomes sole ruler in the Roman Empire (dictator for life).
• On the Ides of March ( March 15 ) 44 BC Chr. Caesar is the assassination of the conspirators to Marcus Junius Brutus killed.
• On November 11, 43 BC Chr. , In Rome , the second triumvirate between Augustus , Marcus Antonius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus concluded for five years.
• 41 BC Chr . : Living in exile in Ephesus, Arsinoë IV. , The (half) sister of Cleopatra , is murdered in the temple of Artemis.
• 40 BC . Chr sharing triumvirate of the Roman Empire: Octavian receives the West, Mark Antony and Lepidus the East Africa.

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