The Augustan Age

27 BCE - 14 CE

 Major Events in Roman History
Consuls during the Reign of Augustus

Year
Political and Military 
Legal  Literary and Artistic Social 
27
Respublica Restituta:
Octavian receives title of Augustus: beginning of principate
House of Augustus (Palatine)
Baths of Agrippa Pantheon
26

Livy begins his ab Urbe Condita 
25
Marcellus and Julia wed 
24

Augustus ill 
23
 
Constitutional reform: Augustus receives tribunician power for life, resigns consulship (first settlement)
 
 Horace's Odes 1-3
 Marcellus dies
21
     
 Agrippa and Julia wed
20
 Return of standards from Parthia
 
Prima Porta Augustus (1; 2)
 Birth of Gaius Caesar
19
Augustus receives consular power for life
Death of Virgil
18
Leges Iuliae:
de adulteriis

(law on adultery)
de maritandis ordinibus
(law on procreation)
17
Augustus adopts Gaius and Lucius Caesar
Horace's Carmen Saeculare
Secular Games
Birth of Lucius Caesar
15
Imperial mint established at Lugdunum
13

Augustus' and Agrippa's provinces and powers renewed

Death of Lepidus
12
Augustus becomes Pontifex Maximus

Death of Agrippa
Birth of Agrippa Postumus
11

Tiberius and Julia wed
9
Completion of Ara Pacis
Death of Drusus
8
Augustus' proconsular power renewed 
 Rome divided into 14 regions
Death of Maecenas
Death of Horace
7

Victory of Tiberius over the Germans
6

Tiberius receives tribunician power for life
5

Augustus consul
Tiberius in exile on Rhodes
 

Gaius Caesar assumes toga virilis

2

Augustus becomes Pater Patriae
Augustus consul
Gaius negotiates with Parthians
Dedication of Forum of Augustus & Temple of Mars Ultor

(1; 2)

Exile of Julia
Lucius Caesar assumes toga virilis
1 CE

Gaius Caesar becomes consul
2
Tiberius returns from Rhodes
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Death of Lucius Caesar
4
Augustus adopts Tiberius & Agrippa Postumus
Tiberius adopts Germanicus

Germanicus and Agrippina wed
Death of Gaius Caesar
6

Augustus establishes aerarium militare
Judaea becomes a Roman province
8
Exile of Ovid
9
Victory of Tiberius over Illyricum
Defeat of Varus at Teutoberg Forest
Lex Papia Poppaea
12

Triumph of Tiberius over Dalmatia & Pannonia
Germanicus consul
13

Tiberius' proconsular imperium and tribunician power renewed
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (in Latin; selections in English)
14

Death of Augustus (August 9, Nola)
 

Stemma of the Family of Augustus 
Stemma of the Julio-Claudians
Augustan bibliography
Suetonius' Life of Augustus (Latin or English)