44 BC

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.

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

44 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	44 BC XLIII BC
Ab urbe condita	710
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 280
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 8
Ancient Greek era	184th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4707
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−636
Berber calendar	907
Buddhist calendar	501
Burmese calendar	−681
Byzantine calendar	5465–5466
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2653 or 2593     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2654 or 2594
Coptic calendar	−327 – −326
Discordian calendar	1123
Ethiopian calendar	−51 – −50
Hebrew calendar	3717–3718
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	13–14
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3057–3058
Holocene calendar	9957
Iranian calendar	665 BP – 664 BP
Islamic calendar	685 BH – 684 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	44 BC XLIII BC
Korean calendar	2290
Minguo calendar	1955 before ROC 民前1955年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1511
Seleucid era	268/269 AG
Thai solar calendar	499–500
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 83 or −298 or −1070     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 84 or −297 or −1069

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.

Deaths

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