What is 42 BC?
{{Year nav|-42}} {{Year in other calendars|year=-41|BC}} Year '''42 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Monday]], [[Common year starting on Tuesday|Tuesday]] or [[Common year starting on Wednesday|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]] [[Looting|plunders]] the [[cities]] of [[Asia Minor]] * [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]] occupies [[Rhodes]] * [[Mark Antony]] lands with an army in [[Illyria]] * [[Mark Antony]] and [[Augustus|Octavian Caesar]] fight against Caesar's assassins [[Marcus Junius Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius]] in the [[Battle of Philippi]]. == Births == {{births2}} * [[Tiberius]], Roman emperor (d. [[37|AD 37]]) * [[Marcus Claudius Marcellus]] == Deaths == {{deaths2}} * [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]], assassin of [[Julius Caesar]] * [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], assassin of [[Julius Caesar]] * [[Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus|Marcus Livius Drusus]], Roman nobleman * [[Porcia Catonis]], wife of Brutus * [[Gaius Antonius]], brother of [[Mark Antony]] [[Category:42 BC|*]]