The Anniversary of the Battle of Pharsalus

Hail Caesar!

The big news today is that it is the 2056th anniversary of Julius Caesar's defeat of Pompey's Senatorial Army at Pharsalus in Greece. Following his triumph in this battle, Caesar became ruler of Rome. Pompey fled to Ptolemaic Egypt where he was assassinated on the orders of the king.

As for Caesar, with Pharsalus, he had set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the creation of the Roman Emperor (the empire already existing through Rome's imperial posessions) and the domination of the West over world affairs.