44 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

Syria: 268/269 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

The assassination of Julius Caesar

  • Gaius Julius Caesar, together with Marcus Antonius consul.
  • Marcus Junius Brutus held the praetorship to one year.

Other events in the Roman Empire

Science and Technology

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote the philosophical work De Officiis ( Of the obligations), the Younger wrote to his son, Marcus Tullius Cicero in letter form, and Laelius de amicitia, dedicated to his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus.

Disasters

  • Eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily. The ash darkened the sky over Rome. As a result, there are bad harvests up in Egypt.

Died

  • Gaius Helvius Cinna, Roman poet
  • Ptolemy XIV, Egyptian pharaoh (c. 59 BC )
  • Publius Servilius Vatia, Roman politician (c. 132 BC)
  • Publius Sittius, Roman knights and adventurers
  • 44 BC: Burebista, first king of the Dacians (c. 111 BC)
April 2014 List of centuries 3rd century BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 54 BC 48 BC 34 BC Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Mark Antony Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Terra (mythology) Publius Cornelius Dolabella Rostra September 2 100 BC Ptolemy XIV of Egypt Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus (consul 79 BC)
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