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.

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	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 83 or −298 or −1070     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (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