When the Galactic Wars were completed, Caesar was ordered to resign from the military administration and return to Rome, but he refused to obey. In 49 BC he crossed the Rubicon with the 13th legion and entered illegally on the outskirts of Rome with an army. There was a law forbidding troops to cross the Rubicon River for fear of a coup or civil conflict. Indeed, the act of Julius Caesar led to a civil war, which he won and declared a life-long dictatorship of the Roman Democracy. In the next few years he expanded the empire to Asia Minor and also annexed Egypt, concluding a relationship and having a baby with Cleopatra of Egypt. Caesar organized the empire and expanded it to east and west, at the same time re-organized the calendar to have 12 months. To his honor the calendar and one month was named after him.
His great power and resonance in the world was feared by the senate; they publicly murdered him in 44 BC, inside the Roman Parliament. His death was followed by many conflicts for the power until Octavian Augustus defeated Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra in Aktion, and remained the sole ruler of Rome. In the next two centuries there will be a relative peace in the Mediterranean world that will be called "Roman Peace".
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