44 BC - Definition and Overview

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
• July 26 - Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (last date mentioned alive)
• Burebista, king of Dacia