Considering all the neat unintentional parallels in the Lord of the Rings, it isnt suprising that something like this turned up in the chronology. Was tolkien a fan of Shakespear? Ive never heard anything like that, but he might have planned out the date more because of it's significant affiliation with fate in general than because of it's part in Julius Caesar.
But either way, good call in picking that out!
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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