27 BC

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Year '27 BC' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Births

Deaths

References

Events

By place

Rome

★ January 16 — The Roman Senate votes Octavian the title of 'Augustus'. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of 'Romulus'. He is known as Augustus afterwards.

★ Augustus becomes consul for the seventh time. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes consul for the third time.

★ Augustus, as consul, returns power to the Senate of Rome.

★ Augustus starts a new military reform.

★ Northern statue of the Colossi of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt (according to Strabo).

★ 27 BC–180 AD — Early Empire in Rome.

Births

★ Emperor Ai of Han

Deaths

★ Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar

References

★ Reference for Octavian considering the name Romulus: W.H. Gross, 'The Propaganda of an Unpopular Ideology,' in The Age of Augustus: Interdisciplinary Conference held at Brown University, April 30–May 2, 1982, edited by Rolf Winkes (Rhode Island: Centre for Old World Archaeology and Art, 1985), 35.