Editing 27 BC (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Republic/Empire ====
* [[Augustus|Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian]] becomes [[Roman Consul]] for the seventh time. His partner [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]] becomes Consul for the third time.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; Octavian formally returns full power to the [[Roman Senate|Senate]]; they give him the titles of ''[[Princeps]]'' and ''[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]]''. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of ''[[Romulus]]'',<ref>Gross, W. H. "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.</ref> thus becoming first [[Roman emperor]].
* Caesar Augustus starts a new military reform. He reduces the number of [[Roman legion|legion]]s to 26 and creates the [[Praetorian Guard]] (1,000 men).
* Augustus forms the [[Classis Misenensis]], based in the [[harbor]] of [[Portus Julius]] at [[Misenum]].
* Agrippa divides [[Hispania Ulterior]] into [[Baetica]] and [[Lusitania]], and enlarges [[Hispania Citerior]].
* Northern statue of the [[Colossi of Memnon]] is shattered by an earthquake in [[Egypt]] (according to [[Strabo]]).
* Marcus Agrippa begins the construction of the old [[Pantheon, Rome]].
* [[Augustus]]' first census of the [[Roman Empire]] (formerly the [[Roman Republic]]) reports a total of 4,063,000 [[citizen]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/2*.html#ref39|title=LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)|website=penelope.uchicago.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref>
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