27 BC

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 

 Emperor Ai of Han (d. 1 BC)

 Deaths 

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