43 BC
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| 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: | 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC |
| 43 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 43 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 711 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1886 – -1885 |
| Buddhist calendar | 502 |
| Chinese calendar | 2594/2654 (丁丑年) — to —
2595/2655(戊寅年) |
| Ethiopian calendar | -50 – -49 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3718 – 3719 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 13 – 14 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3059 – 3060 |
| Holocene calendar | 9958 |
| Iranian calendar | 664 BP – 663 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 684 BH – 683 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 618 (皇紀618年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 9958 |
| Julian calendar | 3 |
| Korean calendar | 2291 |
| Thai solar calendar | 501 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Consuls: Pansa and Hirtius.
- April 14 - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius. Both consuls are killed (Hirtius did not die until after the Battle of Mutina; Octavian takes command of their armies.
- April 21 - Cicero's 14th and last Philippic.
- April 21 - Antony is again defeated in the Battle of Mutina by a coalition of Octavian, Decimus Brutus, and the two consuls of the year. Antony withdraws into Transalpine Gaul (France) to join Aemilius Lepidus, soon after Decimus Brutus is killed by brigands.
- July-August – Antony is again at the head of a large army, and Octavian enters Rome in force without opposition. It is clear that Cicero’s plan to divide them against each other has failed.
- November 26 - Octavian meets Antony and Lepidus in Bononia, and the three enter into an official five-year autocratic pact, the Second Triumvirate. (See lex Titia)
[edit] Gaul
[edit] Asia
- According to legend, Nagasena creates the Emerald Buddha figurine in Patna, India.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- December 7 - Cicero, Roman politician and author (murdered) (b. 106 BC)
- Atia Balba Caesonia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (b. 85 BC)
- Decimus Brutus, Roman statesman (murdered)
- Publius Cornelius Dolabella, suffect consul after the assassination of Julius Caesar
- Hirtius, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
- Pansa, Roman statesman (killed in battle)
- Trebonius, assassin of Julius Caesar (murdered by Publius Cornelius Dolabella)
- Verres, corrupt praetor
