Size Duel
Streamer mode
More games

Older Than deck / Events and discoveries

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Happened

49 BCE

Crossing a small river with his army started a civil war.

Sources and checks

Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.

“49 fvt.”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“49 f.v.t.”Lex / Den Store Danske: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check

Spotted a mistake? Tell us; a correction gets a new revision.

Fair duels for this one