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27 b.c.e.

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The 27 (twenty-seventh) year before the new era (b.C.E.) is an ordinary year beginning on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, or a leap year beginning on Monday on the July calendar.

Events

In the Roman Empire

In traditional historiography this year marked the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Empire.
The consuls of the Roman Empire are Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian (for the seventh time) and Mark Vipsanius Agrippa (for the third time).
13 January His Senate has provided full proconsul power for 10 years over the provinces of Tarakonska Spain, Lusitania, Gaul, Syria, Cilicia, Cyprus and Egypt and the right to rule them through its Legates. The division of imperial and senate provinces arose.
January 16th at the suggestion of Munatius Planck, Octavian is favored by the title Augustus, which is preferred to the title Romulus. In addition he received a symbolic
Augustus created the Praetorian Guard.
August is going on a tour of Gaul and Spain.
Agrippa began building the Pantheon in Rome.
July 4th "Triumph of Mark Licinius Crassus for victory in Thrace.
September 25, . . a triumph of Mark Valerius Messala Corvin for victory in Aquitaine.
The Senate province of Achaia was created.
August is holding a census in Gaul Comata reorganized it in three provinces: Galia Aquitainia, Lugdunska Gaul and Gaul Belgium.

Born
ID, Chinese Emperor of Han Dynasty (died 1 year)
Vipsania Marcella, daughter of Agrippa and Claudia Marcella Starsha (dead okay. 2 years)

Dead
Mark Terence Varon, Roman scholar and writer

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