27 BC

Year 27 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday or a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Sunday of the Proleptic 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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27 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar27 BC
XXVI BC
Ab urbe condita727
Ancient Greek era188th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4724
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−619
Berber calendar924
Buddhist calendar518
Burmese calendar−664
Byzantine calendar5482–5483
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
2670 or 2610
     to 
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
2671 or 2611
Coptic calendar−310 – −309
Discordian calendar1140
Ethiopian calendar−34 – −33
Hebrew calendar3734–3735
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat30–31
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3074–3075
Holocene calendar9974
Iranian calendar648 BP – 647 BP
Islamic calendar668 BH – 667 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar27 BC
XXVI BC
Korean calendar2307
Minguo calendar1938 before ROC
民前1938年
Nanakshahi calendar−1494
Seleucid era285/286 AG
Thai solar calendar516–517
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
100 or −281 or −1053
     to 
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
101 or −280 or −1052
Imperator Caesar Augustus

Events

Roman Republic/Empire

  • 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] thus becoming first Roman emperor.
  • Caesar Augustus starts a new military reform. He reduces the number of legions to 26 and creates the Praetorian Guard (1,000 men).
  • Augustus forms the Classis Misenensis, based in the harbor 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).
  • Marcus Agrippa begins the construction of the old Pantheon, Rome.
  • Augustus' first census of the Roman Empire (formerly the Roman Republic) reports a total of 4,063,000 citizens.[2]

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Deaths

References

  1. Gross, W. H. "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.
  2. "LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
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