When the assasination took place the roman empire was the biggest empire the world has ever seen. His assination set the roman empire's course forevor. The emporer was murdered on March 14. This sent the empire into a whirling spin, and it took them many years to find their way out of it. They say that Julius Caesar's murder was a mistake, but the world will never know. The Roman empire were in an kinda contraversy, because of the way the government was ran. Julius Caesar was known as a very strict leader. That is some of the reason he was murdered. Julius Caesar was kinda in a way like Abraham Lincoln, because he was killed for doing the right thing.