27 BC

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century

Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s

Years: 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC

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Events

• 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.
• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus becomes Roman Consul for the seventh time. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes Consul for the third time.
• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, as consul, returns power to the Senate of Rome.
• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus starts a new military reform
• Northern statue of the Colossi of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt (according to Strabo)

Births

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.