43 BC

Centuries: 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century

Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC – 40s BC – 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s

Years: 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC 39 BC 38 BC

Events

• April 14 – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius. Both consuls are killed; Octavian takes command of their armies.
• April 21 – Cicero's 14th and last Philippic.
• April 21 – Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year. Antony withdraws into Transalpine Gaul (France).
• July-August – Antony is again at the head of a large army, and Octavian enters Rome in force without opposition. It is clear that Cicero’s plan to divide them against each other has failed.
• November – Octavian meets Antony and Lepidus in Bononia, and the three enter into an official five-year autocratic pact, the Second Triumvirate.
• Lugdunum (Lyon) is founded

Births

• March 20 – Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet (d. 17/18).
• Princess Iotapa of Media.

Deaths

• December 7 – Cicero, Roman politician and author (murdered) (b. 106 BC)
• Decimus Brutus, Roman statesman (murdered)
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella, suffect consul after the assassination of Julius Caesar
• Hirtius, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
• Pansa, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
• Trebonius, assassin of Julius Caesar (murdered by Publius Cornelius Dolabella)
• Verres, corrupt praetor