27 BC

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

**27 BC in other calendars**
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
- Bikram Samwat	30 – 31
- 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.