The world in 42 BC — what happened that year

10 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

The Western Qiang rebelled; the Right General Feng Fengshi was sent to suppress them. (Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals 漢書卷009 元帝永光二年七月)

The Lycians are seized by a madness like a passion for death (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Brutus 31.1)

In the first battle Octavian is badly defeated by Brutus, loses his camp and flees (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Antony 22.2)
Antony enters Greece with a large army to collect money from the eastern provinces (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Antony 23.1)
Cassius takes Rhodes but rules it too harshly (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Brutus 30.3)
Brutus has Cassius's body prepared and sends it to Thasos so that the camp will not be shaken (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Brutus 44.2)
Brutus forms his line and faces the enemy, waiting a long time (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Brutus 49.1)
Brutus has Strato stand beside him, grips the sword hilt with both hands and falls on the blade, dying (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Brutus 52.7)
Allied with Antony and Lepidus, he ended the Philippi war in two battles; in the first he was driven from camp and barely escaped to the wing under Antony's command. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Augustus 13 (영역 Thomson 장 번호; 라틴 8장))
Born in the Palatine district (the view of most authorities); the claim of a birth at Ponti is said to be weakly grounded. (Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars Tiberius 5)