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 other calendars

Gregorian calendar	27 BC
Ab urbe condita	727
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4724
Bahá'í calendar	-1870–-1869
Bengali calendar	-619
Berber calendar	924
English Regnal year	N/A
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	30–31
- 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
Minguo calendar	1938 before ROC 民前1938年
Thai solar calendar	517

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.

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)