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
  • Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

Births

Deaths

• Julius Caesar, assassinated March 15
• July 26 - Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (last date mentioned alive)
• Burebista, King of Dacia
• Antipater the Idumaean, procurator of Judaea and father of Herod the Great

44 BC

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