Events
- Roman Republic
- Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius
- March 15 - (the Ides of March) - Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus. Caesar's famous last quote - coined by William Shakespeare in his play Julius Caesar - was most likely not spoken (see: "Et tu, Brute?").
- March 20 - Caesar's funeral.
- Early April - Octavius returns from Apollonia in Dalmatia to Rome to take up Caesar's inheritance, against advice from Atia (his mother and Caesar's niece) and consular step-father Phillipus.
- April 18 to 21 - Octavius engages in charm offensive with consular Cicero who is fulminating against Mark Antony.
- June - Antony granted a five-year governorship of northern and central Transalpine Gaul (France) and Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy).
- September 2 - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- September 2 – First of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
- December - Antony besieges Decimus Brutus in Mutina (Modena), with Octavian, an ally of Decimus, one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
- Europe
Births
Deaths
44 BC
44 да н. э. | 44 aC | 44 př. n. l. | 44 f.Kr. | 44 v. Chr. | 44 eKr | 44 adC | -44 | K. a. 44 | -44 | -44 | 기원전 44년 | 44 p.n.e. | 44 aK | 44 SM | 44 a.C. | 44 לפנה"ס | 44 a.C.n. | -44 | I. e. 44 | 44 SM | 44 v. Chr. | 44 AC | 44 f.Kr. | -44 | 44 p.n.e. | 44 a.C. | 44 î.Hr. | 44 до н. э. | 44 a.C. | 44 pred Kr. | 44 pr. n. št. | 44. пне. | 44 eaa | 44 f.Kr. | MA 44 | พ.ศ. 500 | 44 до Р.Х. | 前44年