44 BC

Events

End of Roman Republic period and establishment of Roman Empire.
March 15 - Ides of March: Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, among them were two of his favored subordinates, Marcus Junius Brutus and the naval commander in Massilia, Decimus Brutus, his famous quote "Et tu Brute!", which in most popular medias atttributed to Marcus Brutus, the one in the ringleader position of the assination, together with Gaius Cassius Longinus, was actually to Decimus, who was not the ringleader.
April 18 - Octavian arrives in Naples from Greece to take up the inheritance of Julius Caesar.
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 - Julius Caesar, Roman dictator and general (assassinated) (b. 100 BC (according to a solar year in the Julian Calender, 102 BC if according to a lunar year))
July 26 - Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (last date mentioned alive)
Burebista, King of Dacia ca:44 aC