27 BC Facts for Kids

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 in various 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	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 100 or −281 or −1053 — to — 阳木马年 (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).