Wikipedia:
27 BC
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
| Decades: | 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s BC 0s |
| Years: | 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC - 27 BC - 26 BC 25 BC 24 BC |
| 27 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 27 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 727 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1870 – -1869 |
| Buddhist calendar | 518 |
| Chinese calendar | 2610/2670 (癸巳年) — to —
2611/2671(甲午年) |
| Coptic calendar | -310 – -309 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -34 – -33 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3734 – 3735 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 29 – 30 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3075 – 3076 |
| Holocene calendar | 9974 |
| Iranian calendar | 648 BP – 647 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 668 BH – 667 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 634 (皇紀634年) |
| Julian calendar | 19 |
| 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.
- 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
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.ksh:Joohr 27 füür Krėßtůß
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