Death of Cleopatra
Egypt falls to Rome and the Ptolemaic line ends
After the defeat at Actium and Mark Antony's suicide, the last Ptolemaic queen took her own life as Octavian entered Alexandria. Egypt became a Roman province, ending the age of the Hellenistic kingdoms.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — 14 years earlier
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — 1 year earlier
- 27 BC Octavian becomes Augustus — 3 years later
Alive at the time
- Cleopatra (aged 39)
- Augustus (aged 33)
- Herod the Great (aged 42)
- Virgil (aged 40)
- Amanirenas (aged 30)
- Livia Drusilla (aged 29)