Julius Conspiracy (Imperium)

The Julius Conspiracy, Julius Caesar's Assassination Attempt, or The Great Conspiracy, was a 5th decade BCE plot to assassinate Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. Nearly two dozen senators were apart of the plot and each members of The Liberators, the insurgency responsible for the conspiracy. The plot was in planning since Feburary of 44 BCE, one month before the attempted assassination.

On March 15, 44 BCE, Julius Caesar meet with his senators in Capitoline Hill were an abundance of situations were discussed, simultaneously the conspirators prepped to stab their leader. Although halfway through the meeting Marcus Antonius, a very close friend and supporter of Caesar, passed by guards and was able to privately meet with Caesar, taking him into another room and sneaking him out.

The following day Caesar sent out hundreds of soldiers to track down the conspirators, they were all publically hanged and left hanging to be set as examples. Word of the conspiracy spread throughout Rome, boosting pro-Julius mindsets and also anti-Julius mindsets.

Marcus Brutus, a major conspirator, escaped to [then unconquered] Germania and stayed there for years before being discovered (see end of Juliusian Era on this page).

Julius Caesar went on to live into his late-60s and unfortunately died of cancer. His extended reign over Rome allowed the Roman Empire not to fall into chaos like it would have and instead prospered, and then entering a cultural and technological Golden Age throughout the Augustian Era.