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Alea iacta est ("The die is cast") is a Latin phrase attributed  to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in Northern Italy. With this step, he entered Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates. The phrase is still used today to mean that events have passed a point of no return.

"Beware of the ides of march."
Shakespeare
Julius Ceasar (Act1, scene2)

The "ides" of March is the fifteenth; which day of the month the ides is depends on a system of calculation Caesar himself established when he instituted the Julian calendar, a precursor of our own. Months of the Roman calendar were arranged around three named days - the Kalends, the Nones and the Ides - and these were reference points from which the other (unnamed) days were calculated:

Kalends (1st day of the month).
 Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months).
 Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months). 

The importance of the ides of March for Caesar is that it is the day he will be assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius. Despite numerous and improbable portents—the soothsayer's warning, some fearsome thundering, his wife's dreams of his murder, and so on—Caesar ventures forth on the ides to meet his doom.

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