44 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: 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC 39 BC

Events

• End of Roman Republic period and establishment of Roman Empire.
• March 15 – Ides of March: Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
• April 18 – Octavian arrives in Naples from Greece to take up the inheritance of Julius Caesar.
• June – Mark 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.
• Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

Births

Deaths

• March 15 – Julius Caesar, Roman dictator and general (assassinated) (b. 100 BC)
• July 26 – Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (last date mentioned alive)
• Burebista, King of Dacia