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.

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 

 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