What lead to Julius caesar being assassinated?
The senate leaders and those members of the oldest patrician families that had previously wielded power through the ‘democracy’ of the Roman Republic thought Caesar had gained too much individual power and popularity among the masses. He was unlikely to ever give that power up voluntarily so they assassinated him. Julius Caesar himself was never actually Emperor and ironically it was the act of assassinating him that caused the republic to fall and be replaced by his nephew (and adopted son) Octavian. He became the first Roman Emperor and took the title ‘Caesar Augustus’.
