27 BC

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

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 (d. 1 BC)

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.