44 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC
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| Years: | 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC - 44 BC - 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC |
| 44 BC by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 44 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 710 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1887 – -1886 |
| Berber calendar | 907 |
| Buddhist calendar | 501 |
| Burmese calendar | -681 |
| Chinese calendar | 2593/2653 (丙子年) — to — 2594/2654(丁丑年) |
| Coptic calendar | -327 – -326 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -51 – -50 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3717 – 3718 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 12 – 13 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3058 – 3059 |
| Holocene calendar | 9957 |
| Iranian calendar | 665 BP – 664 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 685 BH – 684 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 617 (皇紀617年) |
| Julian calendar | 2 |
| Korean calendar | 2290 |
| Thai solar calendar | 500 |
Year 44 BC was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Rome
- 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 — Octavian 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 stepfather Phillipus.
- April 18 to April 21 — Octavian 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 Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina (Modena), with Octavian, an ally of Decimus, one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
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[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- March 15 — Julius Caesar assassinated in the Senate
- 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 Greatast:44 edC
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