[Right_Wing_Madman]

I have often wondered if Julius Caesar was actually assassinated on the ‘Ides of March” or if Shakespeare sorta kinda figured it sounded good.

Julius Caesar was killed on March 15th. March 15th was an important day in the Republic - it was the first business day of the year for the Roman Senate (March, not January, being the first month of the year in the original Roman calendar). March 15th was the day the two elected consuls would give their acceptance speeches to the Senate. It was also the day the previous year's taxes and debts were due to Rome. And on March 14th, Brutus attended a dinner party at Caesar's home and invited Caesar to give a speech to adjourn the Senate the next day, in the tradition of previous consuls, in which Caesar accepted.

[njslim]

Saw a video couple years back of historical re-enactment of the assassination

Found if all the twenty odd conspirators tried to bum rush Caesar and stab him would have got into each others way and probably end up stabbing each other

Probably only 2 or 3 actually stabbed Caesar - rest would have later dipped their daggers in the blood as a symbol

[scrabblehack]

Maybe a full moon fell on March 15, 44 BC but the Roman calendar was not lunar or lunisolar.