43 BC

Events

April 14 - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caeser|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 Lepidus|Aemilius Lepidus, soon after Decimus Brutus was 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 - Octavian meets Antony and Lepidus in Bononia, and the three enter into an official five-year autocratic pact, the Second Triumvirate.

Lugdunum (Lyon) is founded

Births

March 20 - Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet (d. 17/18).

Princess Iotapa of Medes|Media.

Deaths

December 7 - Cicero, Roman politician and author (murdered) (b. 106 BC)

Decimus Brutus, Roman Republic|Roman statesman (murdered)

Publius Cornelius Dolabella, suffect consul after the assassination of Julius Caesar

Hirtius, Roman Republic|Roman statesman (killed in battle)

Pansa, Roman Republic|Roman statesman (killed in battle)

Trebonius, assassin of Julius Caesar (murdered by Publius Cornelius Dolabella)

Verres, corrupt praetor