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	Cp	2nd century BC
	C	1st century BC
	Cf	1st century
	Yp1	30 BC
	Yp2	29 BC
	Yp3	28 BC
	Year	27 BC
	Ya1	26 BC
	Ya2	25 BC
	Ya3	24 BC
	Dp3	50s BC
	Dp2	40s BC
	Dp1	30s BC
	D	20s BC
	Dn1	10s BC
	Dn2	0s BC
	Dn3	0s

EVENTS

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.

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus becomes Roman Consul for the seventh time. His partner Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa becomes Consul for the third time.

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus , as Consul , returns power to the Senate of Rome .

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus starts a new military reform

Northern statue of the Colossi Of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt (according to Strabo )

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.