42 BC

Year 42 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Plancus.

Events
 Marcus Junius Brutus plunders the cities of Asia Minor
 Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes
 Mark Antony lands with an army in Illyria
 Mark Antony and Octavian Caesar fight against Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius in the Battle of Philippi.

 Births 

 Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. AD 37)
 Marcus Claudius Marcellus

 Deaths 

 Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassin of Julius Caesar 
 Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar 
 Marcus Livius Drusus, Roman nobleman
 Porcia Catonis, wife of Brutus 
 Gaius Antonius, brother of Mark Antony

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