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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	50s BC 40s BC 30s BC – 20s BC – 10s BC 0s BC 0s
Years:	30 BC 29 BC 28 BC – 27 BC – 26 BC 25 BC 24 BC

Year 27 BC was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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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).
27 BC–180 AD—Early Empire in Rome.
27 BC-25 BC – Marcus Agrippa builds old pantheon.

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.