27 BC
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC |
| Decades: | 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s BC 0s |
| Years: | 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC |
| 27 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments | |
| Gregorian calendar |
27 BC |
| Ab urbe condita |
727 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-1870 – -1869 |
| Berber calendar |
924 |
| Buddhist calendar |
518 |
| Burmese calendar |
-664 |
| Byzantine calendar |
5482 – 5483 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (2610/2670) — to —
甲午年(2611/2671) |
| Coptic calendar |
-310 – -309 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
-34 – -33 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3734
– 3735 |
| Hindu calendars | |
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29 – 30 |
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| N/A | |
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3075 – 3076 |
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| Holocene calendar |
9974 |
| Iranian calendar |
648 BP – 647 BP |
| Islamic calendar |
668 BH – 667 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar |
2307 |
| Thai solar calendar |
517 |
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.
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Augustus becomes consul for the seventh time. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes consul for the third time.
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Augustus, as consul, returns power to the Senate of Rome.
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Augustus starts a new military reform.
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Northern statue of the Colossi of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt (according to Strabo).
Births
- Emperor Ai of Han
(d. 1 BC)
Deaths
- Marcus Terentius Varro
, Roman scholar
References
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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.

