44 BC

Centuries:	2nd century BC · 1st century BC · 1st century
Decades:	70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC
Years:	47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC

Events

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 step-father 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.