Assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar Caius Julius Caesar, a Roman consul, was a great leader and a terrible Many of his reforms were excellent, but he also was hungry for the power of Roman Dictator, which would give him absolute power for as long as he required it. Throughout his life he did many things including creating the calendar that we know today, advancing mathematics, and many other scholarly things. When he became dictator in 44 B.C., those in power knew he must be stopped, and so he was assassinated. Caesar was born in 100 B.C., sometime in July. Around the age of 22, unable to gain a political p