43 Bc

Events

• April 14 - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
• April 21 - Cicero's 14th and last Philippic.
• April 21 - Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year. Antony withdraws into Transalpine Gaul (France).
• July-August – Antony is again at the head of a large army, and Octavian enters Rome in force without opposition. It is clear that Cicero’s plan to divide them against each other has failed.
• November - Octavian meets Antony and Lepidus in Bononia, and the three enter into an official five-year autocratic pact, the Second Triumvirate.
• Lugdunum (Lyon) is founded

Births

• March 20 - Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet (d. 17/18).
• Princess Iotapa of Media.

Deaths

• December 7 - Cicero, Roman politician and author (murdered) (b. 106 BC)
• Decimus Brutus, Roman statesman (murdered)
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella, suffect consul after the assassination of Julius Caesar
• Hirtius, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
• Pansa, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
• Trebonius, assassin of Julius Caesar (murdered by Publius Cornelius Dolabella)
• Verres, corrupt praetor

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