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
27 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
27 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 27 BC

Ab urbe condita 727
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1870 – -1869
Berber calendar 924
Buddhist calendar 518
Burmese calendar -664
Byzantine calendar 5482 – 5483
Chinese calendar 癸巳年
(2610/2670) 甲午年
(2611/2671)
Coptic calendar -310 – -309
Ethiopian calendar -34 – -33
Hebrew calendar 3734 – 3735
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 29 – 30
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3075 – 3076
Holocene calendar 9974
Iranian calendar 648 BP – 647 BP
Islamic calendar 668 BH – 667 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2307
Thai solar calendar 517

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

Events

By place

Rome

• 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.

Births

• Emperor Ai of Han (d. 1 BC)

Deaths

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

References

• 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.