44 BC Chr.
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| 44 BC Chr. In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 500/501 (southern Buddhism); 499/500 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 44th (45th) cycle , year of the Fire Ox丁丑 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rat 丙子) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 183/1. Year of the 184th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3717/18 (13-14 September) |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCCX (710) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 267/268 (turn of the year April); Syria: 268/269 (New Year October) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 13/14 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
The assassination of Caesar
- Gaius Iulius Caesar becomes consul with Marcus Antonius .
- Marcus Junius Brutus holds the praetur for one year.
Caesar's death (historical painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme , 1867)
- March 15th : Ides of March : Gaius Iulius Caesar is murdered by several senators under the leadership of Marcus Iunius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in the theater of Pompeius in Rome with 23 dagger stabs.
- March 17 : The Senate meets in the Temple of Tellus and grants Caesar's amnesty to the murderers . Publius Cornelius Dolabella , Cicero's son-in-law , is confirmed as a suffect consul after Caesar.
- March 20 : Caesar's funeral : In front of the speaker's platform ( Forum Romanum ), followers have erected a gold-plated replica of the Temple of Venus Genetrix . In front of the assembled Romans and an army of veterans who have streamed into the city, Mark Antony - once the tribune of the people by Caesar's favor, later the dictator's right hand - reads out the will of the dead: Each citizen receives 300 sesterces as a gift from Caesar's private box .
- September 2nd : Marcus Tullius Cicero delivers his first of 14 Philippine speeches against Marcus Antonius, who after Caesar's death is up to sole power.
Other events in the Roman Empire
- June 21st 44 / 43V. BC : Lucius Munatius Plancus , governor of Gaul , founds the colony Augusta Raurica , today's Augst in Switzerland.
science and technology
- Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote the philosophical works De officiis ( Of the Duties ), written to his son Marcus Tullius Cicero the Younger , and dedicated to Laelius de amicitia , to his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus .
Disasters
- Etna eruption in Sicily . The ashes darken the sky over Rome . As a result there are bad harvests in Egypt.
Died
- March 15 : Gaius Iulius Caesar , Roman consul and dictator, murdered (* 100 BC )
- Gaius Helvius Cinna , Roman poet
- Lucius Caninius Gallus , Roman tribune
- Ptolemy XIV , Egyptian Pharaoh (* around 59 BC )
- Publius Servilius Vatia , Roman politician (* around 132 BC )
- Publius Sittius , Roman knight and adventurer
- around 44 BC Chr .: Burebista , first king of the Dacians (* around 111 BC )
Web links
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