42 BC

Year 42 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Plancus.

42 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	42 BC XLI BC
Ab urbe condita	712
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 282
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 10
Ancient Greek era	184th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4709
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−634
Berber calendar	909
Buddhist calendar	503
Burmese calendar	−679
Byzantine calendar	5467–5468
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2655 or 2595     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2656 or 2596
Coptic calendar	−325 – −324
Discordian calendar	1125
Ethiopian calendar	−49 – −48
Hebrew calendar	3719–3720
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	15–16
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3059–3060
Holocene calendar	9959
Iranian calendar	663 BP – 662 BP
Islamic calendar	683 BH – 682 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	42 BC XLI BC
Korean calendar	2292
Minguo calendar	1953 before ROC 民前1953年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1509
Seleucid era	270/271 AG
Thai solar calendar	501–502
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 85 or −296 or −1068     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 86 or −295 or −1067

Events

• Marcus Junius Brutus plunders the cities of Asia Minor
• Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes
• Mark Antony lands with an army in Illyria
• Mark Antony and Octavian Caesar fight against Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius in the Battle of Philippi.

Births

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• Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. AD 37)
• Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Deaths

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• Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassin of Julius Caesar
• Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar
• Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman nobleman
• Porcia Catonis, wife of Brutus
• Gaius Antonius, brother of Mark Antony