Augustus's Title of "Princeps": The Founding of the Roman Empire (27 BCE)

27 BCE · Roma · political

The Senate conferred on Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus the titles "Augustus" (venerable) and "Princeps" (first citizen).

Augustus organized the institution of empire within traditional republican forms: proconsular imperium together with tribunicia potestas. | The formal end of the Roman Republic (its actual end came in 44 or 31 BCE); the beginning of the imperial period; the Pax Romana (two centuries of peace).

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What was Augustus's Title of "Princeps": The Founding of the Roman Empire (27 BCE)?
The Senate conferred on Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus the titles "Augustus" (venerable) and "Princeps" (first citizen).
When did Augustus's Title of "Princeps": The Founding of the Roman Empire (27 BCE) happen?
27 BCE
Where did Augustus's Title of "Princeps": The Founding of the Roman Empire (27 BCE) take place?
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