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.
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.
Comosicus succeeds Burebista as king of Dacia.

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