<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Augustus">Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus</a> is granted the title <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_(honorific)" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Augustus (honorific)">Augustus</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a>, marking the beginning of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-2" id="mwHg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHw">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt20" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGibbon2003">Gibbon, Edward (2003). Mueller, Hans-Friedrich (ed.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9xriVJrENcMC" id="mwB3Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB3c">The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Abridged edition</i></a>. New York: Random House. p.<span id="mwB3g" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>47. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB3k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB3o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780375758119" id="mwB3s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780375758119"><bdi id="mwB3w">9780375758119</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt20" class="Z3988" id="mwB30" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire.+Abridged+edition&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=47&amp;rft.pub=Random+House&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=9780375758119&amp;rft.aulast=Gibbon&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9xriVJrENcMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>