44 BC

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Events

End of Roman Republic period and establishment of Roman Empire.
March 15 - (the Ides of March) - Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them being 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 - Julius Caesar's funeral.
Early April - Octavius returns from Apollonia in Dalmatia to Rome to take up the inheritance of Julius Caesar, against advice from Atia (his mother and Caesar's niece) and consular step-father Phillipus.
April 18 to 21 - Octavius engages in charm offensive with consular Cicero who is fulminating against Mark Antony.
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.
December - Antony besieged Decimus Brutus in Mutina (Modena), with Octavian, being an ally of Decimus, one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

March 15 - (the Ides of March) - Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them being 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?". (Caesar: b. 100 BC according to a solar year in the Julian Calendar, 102 BC if according to a lunar year)
July 26 - Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (last date mentioned alive)
Burebista, King of Dacia be:44 да н. э.