44 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:	47 BC 46 BC 45 BC – 44 BC – 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC

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Year 44 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Antony.

Events

• March 15 Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators. This date is known as The Ides of March.
• March 20 — Caesar's funeral.
• Early April — Octavian returns from Apollonia in Dalmatia to Rome to become ruler of Rome, against advice from his mother and stepfather Phillipus.
• June — Mark Antony promised five years of being governor of northern and central Transalpine Gaul (France) and Cisalpine Gaul (Northern Italy).
• September 2 — Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt makes her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
• Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

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  The Roman empire in 44 BC (in dark and light red and orange)

for more information, see Category:44 BC 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