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Year '44 BC' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

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Rome

Europe

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

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 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.

Europe

★ Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

Births

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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 Great