This is a timeline of events in the life of Julius Caesar, born in 100 BCE, a powerful general, ambitious politician and self-declared dictator of the Roman Republic. At age 37 hew was elected 'pontifex maximus', the most important person in Rome. He launched a conquest of Gaul and forms a relationship with Cleopatra in Egypt. He was known for his military conquests and his brutal murder in 44 BCE by senators wishing to defend the republic and its values from his dictatorship.