Aegean Sea. He lands a military force on the island and plunders the city. Cassius puts to death 50 of the leading citizens and seizes all the gold he can lay hands on. July–August – Antony is again at the head of a large army; Octavian enters Rome in force without opposition. It is clear that Cicero's plan to divide them against each other has failed. August 19 – Octavian takes office as consul. He's prevailed to pass the lex Pedia, a law establishing the murder of Caesar as a capital crime. 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). To cement their reconciliation Octavian agrees to marry Claudia, a daughter of Antony's wife Fulvia by her former husband Publius Clodius Pulcher. November – The triumvirs introduce proscriptions in which allegedly 130 senators and 2,000 equites are branded as outlaws and deprived of their property. December 7 – Marcus Tullius Cicero is killed in Formiae in a litter going to the seaside, by a party led by Herennius (a centurion) and Popilius (a military tribune). His head and hands are displayed on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum. Gaul Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon) is founded. First reference to Cularo (Grenoble). Asia According to legend, Nagasena creates the Emerald Buddha figurine in Patna, India. Births March 20 – Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet (d. AD 17/18) Iotapa, princess of Media Atropatene (daughter of Artavasdes I) Iullus Antonius, Roman consul (son of Mark Antony) (d. 2 BC) Deaths April 22 – Gaius Vibius Pansa, Roman consul and general (killed in battle) December 7 – Cicero, Roman statesman and orator (murdered) (b. 106 BC) Antipater the Idumaean, Jewish founder of the Herodian dynasty (murdered) Atia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus (b. 85 BC) Aulus Hirtius, Roman consul and historian (killed in battle) Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman statesman (murdered) (b. c. 81 BC) Decimus Laberius, Roman nobleman and Latin writer (b. c. 105 BC) Gaius Trebonius, Roman politician (assassin of Julius Caesar) Gaius Verres, Roman politician and governor (b. c. 120 BC) Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Roman consul and governor (b. c. 100 BC) Lucius Minucius Basilus, Roman politician (assassin of Julius Caesar, murdered by his own slaves) Lucius Roscius Fabatus, Roman politician (killed in battle) Pontius Aquila, Roman politician (assassin of Julius