| Millennium: | 1st millennium 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 | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 27 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 727 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1870 – -1869 |
| Bengali calendar | -619 |
| 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 | |
| - 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 | |
| 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. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Second Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa (or, less frequently, year 727 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 27 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Rome
- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian becomes Roman Consul for the seventh time. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes Consul for the third time.
- January 16—Octavian formally returns full power to the Senate, they give him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of Romulus.[1]
- Caesar Augustus starts a new military reform. He reduced the number of legions to 26 and creates the Praetorian Guard (1,000 men).
- Augustus formed the Classis Misenensis, based in the harbour of Portus Julius at Misenum.
- Agrippa divides Hispania Ulterior into Baetica and Lusitania, and enlarges Hispania Citerior.
- 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.
- 27 BC–25 BC—Marcus Agrippa builds the old Pantheon.
Births
- Emperor Ai of Han (d. 1 BC)
Deaths
- Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar (b. 116 BC)
References
- ^ 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.
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