January 16 – Octavian formally returns full power to the
Senate; they give him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of Romulus,[4] thus becoming first
Roman emperor.
Caesar Augustus starts a new military reform. He reduces the number of
legions to 26 and creates the
Praetorian Guard (1,000 men).
Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes
Roman Consul for the eighth time. His partner
Titus Statilius Taurus becomes Consul for the second time and refounds the old Contestanian Iberian capital of Ilici (
Elche), known since then as "Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta".
Following coinage reform, the
as is struck in reddish pure
copper, instead of
bronze. The denominations of
sestertius and
dupondius are introduced as large bronze coins.
The Roman writer, architect and engineer
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio finishes writing De Architectura (known today as The Ten Books of Architecture), a treatise in Latin on architecture, and perhaps the first work about this discipline.
Poetry
The Roman poet
Horace publishes the first three books of Odes.
^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.
January 16 – Octavian formally returns full power to the
Senate; they give him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. He accepts this honor, having declined the alternative title of Romulus,[4] thus becoming first
Roman emperor.
Caesar Augustus starts a new military reform. He reduces the number of
legions to 26 and creates the
Praetorian Guard (1,000 men).
Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes
Roman Consul for the eighth time. His partner
Titus Statilius Taurus becomes Consul for the second time and refounds the old Contestanian Iberian capital of Ilici (
Elche), known since then as "Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta".
Following coinage reform, the
as is struck in reddish pure
copper, instead of
bronze. The denominations of
sestertius and
dupondius are introduced as large bronze coins.
The Roman writer, architect and engineer
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio finishes writing De Architectura (known today as The Ten Books of Architecture), a treatise in Latin on architecture, and perhaps the first work about this discipline.
Poetry
The Roman poet
Horace publishes the first three books of Odes.
^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.