Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was a Roman statesman and general.
Biography:
He formed with Pompey and Crassus the First Triumvirate in 60 BC. He conquered Gaul 58-50 and invaded Britain 55 and 54. He fought against Pompey 49-48 defeating him at Pharsalus. After a period in Egypt Caesar returned to Rome as dictator from 46. He was assassinated by conspirators on the Ides of March 44.
A patrician, Caesar allied himself with the popular party, and when elected Aedile in 65 nearly ruined himself with lavish amusements for the Roman populace. Although a free thinker, he was elected chief pontiff in 63 and appointed governor of Spain in 61.
Returning to Rome in 60, he formed with Pompey and Crassus the First Triumvirate. As governor of Gaul, he was engaged in its subjugati
on 58-50, defeating the Germans under Ariovistus and selling thousands of the Belgic tribes into slavery.
In 55 he crossed into Britain, returning for a further campaigning visit in 54. A revolt by the Gauls under Vercingetorix in 52 was crushed in 51. His own commentaries on the campaigns show a mastery worthy of fiction, as does his account of the ensuing Civil War.
His governorship of Spain was to end in 49, and, Crassus being dead, Pompey became his rival. Declaring "the die is cast", Caesar crossed the Rubicon (the small river separating Gaul from Italy) to meet the army raised against him by Pompey.
In the ensuing civil war, he followed Pompey to Epirus in 48, defeated him at Pharsalus, and chased him to Egypt, where he was murdered. Caesar stayed some months in Egypt, where Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, gave birth to his son, Caesarion.
He executed a lightning campaign in 47 against King Pharnaces II (ruled 63-47 BC) in Asia Minor, which he summarized: Veni vidi vici ("I came, I saw, I conquered").
With his final victory over the sons of Pompey at Munda in Spain in 45, he established his position, having been awarded a ten-year dictatorship in 46.
On March 15, 44 he was stabbed to death at the foot of Pompey's statue in the Senate house.
Why is Julius Caesar famous?
Julius Caesar was a distinguished Roman general and statesman, who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. 
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