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Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BC)
On the Ancient Rome map as “The Rubicon”
10 Jan 49 BC — Caesar leads one legion across the small border river, the Rubicon, and civil war begins. “The die is cast.” The Republic’s rules have failed to restrain his army.
When 10 Jan 49 BC Type Turning point Chapter Julius Caesar and the civil war (chapter 5 of Ancient Rome)Atlas The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 TURNING POINT · THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME, 264 BC – AD 476 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 · The Metropolitan Museum: The Roman Republic · Natural Earth physical coastlines and rivers
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, and reprojected by Maps of History; dated adjustments are recorded per layer.. CC BY 4.0 Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied Made with Natural Earth. Modern physical geography is a coastline/river reference, not evidence of ancient sovereignty.. Public domain Displayed geometry: -50 (s50); chapter framing: -52. The map shows the moment selected for the chapter, even when the chapter spans several events.
proxy: 144–127 BC Pergamene domain reference · reconstruction: Modern physical shoreline reference · vector: -110 to -32 · vector: -50 to -28 · vector: -50 to -50 · vector: -63 to -26 · vector: -63 to -41 · vector: -63 to -43 · vector: -63 to -50 · vector: -63 to 113 · vector: -63 to 116 · vector: -63 to 22 · vector: -63 to 59 · vector: -63 to 67 · vector: -630 to 337 · vector: -66 to -37 · vector: -66 to -50 · vector: -87 to -43 · vector: -91 to -43 · vector: -91 to -50
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