In 85 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar died.
Hearing of Sulla's death in 78 BC, Caesar felt safe enough to return to Rome
 This final civil war, culminating in the latter's defeat at Actium in 31 BC and suicide in Egypt in 30 BC, resulted in the permanent ascendancy of Octavian, who became the first Roman emperor, under the name Caesar Augustus, a name conveying religious, rather than political, authority

