What is 27 BC?
{{Year nav|-27}} {{Year in other calendars|year=-26|BC}} Year '''27 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Sunday]], [[Common year starting on Monday|Monday]] or [[Common year starting on Tuesday|Tuesday]] or a [[leap year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. ==Events== * [[January 16]] – The [[Roman Senate]] votes [[Augustus|Octavian]] the title of '''[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]]'''. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of '''Romulus'''. He is known as Augustus afterwards. * Augustus becomes [[Roman consul|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]]). == Births == {{births2}} * [[Emperor Ai of Han]] (d. [[1 BC]]) == Deaths == {{deaths2}} * [[Marcus Terentius Varro]], Roman scholar (b. [[116 BC]]) [[Category:27 BC| ]]