27 BC

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• 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.
• Augustus becomes 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).

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• Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar.

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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.