27 BC

Year 27 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday or a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

27 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	27 BC XXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	727
Ancient Greek era	188th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4724
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−619
Berber calendar	924
Buddhist calendar	518
Burmese calendar	−664
Byzantine calendar	5482–5483
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2670 or 2610     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2671 or 2611
Coptic calendar	−310 – −309
Discordian calendar	1140
Ethiopian calendar	−34 – −33
Hebrew calendar	3734–3735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	30–31
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3074–3075
Holocene calendar	9974
Iranian calendar	648 BP – 647 BP
Islamic calendar	668 BH – 667 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	27 BC XXVI BC
Korean calendar	2307
Minguo calendar	1938 before ROC 民前1938年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1494
Seleucid era	285/286 AG
Thai solar calendar	516–517
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 100 or −281 or −1053     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 101 or −280 or −1052

Events

• 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).

Births

for more information, see Category:27 BC births.

• Emperor Ai of Han (d. 1 BC)

Deaths

• Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar (b. 116 BC)