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 v • d • e

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) — to — 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
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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

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.