40s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades:	70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC
Years:	49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events and trends 2 Significant people 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events and trends

• Civil war in Roman Republic between Julius Caesar and forces of the Roman Senate (49 - 45 BC).Julius Caesar emerges victorious and becomes Roman dictator for life.
• Julius Caesar, Roman dictator is assassinated by 23 members of a conspiracy against him. The most prominent among the latter were Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. (March 15, 44 BC).
• Year 45 BC was the year the Julian calendar went into effect.

Significant people

• Julius Caesar, Roman dictator (lived 100–44 BC, term 46–44 BC)
• Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman politician (85–42 BC)
• Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (83–30 BC)
• Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (lived 70/69–30 BC, reigned 51–30 BC) — enters her twenties, has son Caesarion with Julius Caesar, before meeting Mark Antony
• Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus, Roman politician and general (62 BC–14 AD)
• Pharaoh Ptolemy XV Caesarion (lived 47–30 BC, reigned 44–30 BC)
• Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician (died 42 BC)

Births

Deaths

• Julius Caesar (March 15)

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