Octavian becomes Augustus
The Republic keeps its facade as the Roman Empire is born
The Senate granted Octavian the honorific name Augustus. Keeping republican forms while holding real power, he created the Principate; the year is conventionally taken as the start of the Roman Empire and the Pax Romana.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- c. 4 BC Nativity of Jesus — 23 years later
Africa
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — 3 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Augustus (aged 36)
- Herod the Great (aged 45)
- Virgil (aged 43)
- Amanirenas (aged 33)
- Livia Drusilla (aged 32)