What is Ides of March?
[[File:Vincenzo Camuccini - La morte di Cesare.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''The Death of Caesar'' (1798) by [[Vincenzo Camuccini]]]] The '''Ides of March''' ({{lang-la|Idus Martiae}}, [[Late Latin]]: {{lang|la|Idus Martii}})<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anscombe |first1=Alfred |title=The Anglo-Saxon computation of historic time in the ninth century |date=1908 |url=http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1908_BNJ_5_17.pdf |publisher=[[British Numismatic Society]] |page=396 |access-date=2019-06-16 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1908_BNJ_5_17.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a day in the [[Roman calendar]]. It means 15 March in [[Julian calendar]]. Several [[Religion in ancient Rome|religious observances]] marked it as a deadline for settling [[wikt:debt|debt]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110315-ides-of-march-2011-facts-beware-caesar-what-when/ |title=Ides of March: what is it? Why do we still observe it? |date=15 March 2011 |publisher=}}</ref> In 44 BC, it is well known as the date of the [[assassination of Julius Caesar]]. This made the ''Ides of March'' a [[wikt:turning point|turning point]] in Roman history. == Related pages == * [[Julius Caesar (play)|''Julius Caesar'']], a play by [[William Shakespeare]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar] * [http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/nicolaus.html Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus (translated by Clayton M. Hall)] {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ides Of March}} [[Category:Ancient Rome]] [[Category:March observances]] {{history-stub}}