44 BC
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| 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 |
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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.
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