42 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium 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:	45 BC 44 BC 43 BC – 42 BC – 41 BC 40 BC 39 BC

Year 42 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Plancus.

Events

• Marcus Junius Brutus plunders the cities of Asia Minor
• Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes
• Mark Antony lands with an army in Illyria
• Mark Antony and Octavian Caesar fight against Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius in the Battle of Philippi.

Births

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• Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. AD 37)
• Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Deaths

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• Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassin of Julius Caesar
• Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar
• Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman nobleman
• Porcia Catonis, wife of Brutus
• Gaius Antonius, brother of Mark Antony