The Imperial Civil War (1012-1066) was long series of wars and small conflicts which literally tore the Imperium Romanum in two. Emerging out of a rebellion of the army in Harbonensis (Spain), the Civil War grew into something more when the revolutionaries fled to Britannia and took over political control of the islands in 1011. This was the last straw in the failing confidence of the Roman people in their government and the Senate in their Emperor and so was the spark for the assassination of Emperor Julianus by the Patricians on August 1, 1012.