It is the events of 27 BC from which he obtained his traditional name of Augustus, which historians use in reference from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

The death of Alexander is considered as the end of the Principate system established by Augustus.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

In this story, Romulus Augustus marries Igraine, and King Arthur is their son, and the sword of Julius Caesar becomes the legendary Excalibur in Britain.

* 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

Strabo's mention of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest places his knowledge in the final years of Augustus ' reign and after, which is the early first century.

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

The Res Gestae Divi Augusti ( Latin: " The Deeds of the Divine Augustus ") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor Augustus ' stewardship.

The closeness of this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by Tacitus ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself.

Augustus, Hadrian and the rich grammarian Herodes Atticus contributed greatly to its embellishment ; the aqueduct still preserved is due to the latter.

Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.

One of these offices was princeps senatus, (" first man of the Senate ") and became shortened into Augustus ' chief honorific, Princeps ( usually translated as " first citizen ") form which the modern English word and title prince is descended.

This is one of the most enduring titles, Caesar and its transliterations appeared in every year from the time of Caesar Augustus to Tsar Symeon II of Bulgaria's removal from the throne in 1946.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

Englishman Captain George Augustus Graham is responsible with a few other breeders for reaffirming the dogs ' existence.

* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

Its location below Augustus ' residence is thought to be significant ; Octavian, before he became Augustus, had considered taking the name Romulus to indicate that he intended to found Rome anew.

For Augustus, though at the outset he showed himself rather harsh because of the wars and the factional strife, was later able, in the course of time, to achieve a brilliant reputation for his kindly deeds ; Titus, on the other hand, ruled with mildness and died at the height of his glory, whereas, if he had lived a long time, it might have been shown that he owes his present fame more to good fortune than to merit.

Carney's face is shown on the monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th on the Boston Common designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens.

Themes treated by the novel include the conflict between liberty ( as demonstrated by the Roman Republic, and the dedication to its ideals shown by Augustus and young Claudius ), and the stability of Empire and centralized rule ( as represented by Livia Drusilla, Herod Agrippa, and the older Claudius ).

* Roman Forum-the largest on the eastern side of the Adriatic, founded by the first Roman Emperor Augustus, as shown by two stone inscriptions about its completion dating from the 3rd century.

The destroyed Temple of Divus Augustus in Rome, the centre of the Augustan cult, is shown on Roman coins of the 2nd century AD as having been built in octostyle.

Notwithstanding the favor shown to him by the Elector Maximilian Emanuel, he accepted in 1688 the appointment of Kapellmeister at the court of Hanover, where he speedily improved an acquaintance dating from 1681 with Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg ( Celle ; afterwards Elector of Hanover ), winning also a pleasant footing with the Elector's daughter Sophia Charlotte ( afterwards Electress of Brandenburg and Queen of Prussia ), the philosopher Leibniz, the Abbate Ortensio Mauro, and many men of letters and intelligence, and where, in 1710, he showed great kindness to Handel, who was then just entering upon his glorious career.

The favorable position of English Jews was shown, among other things, by the visit of Abraham ibn Ezra in 1158, by that of Isaac of Chernigov in 1181, and by the resort to England of Jews who were exiled from France by Philip Augustus in 1182, among them probably being Judah Sir Leon of Paris.

Muziris, as shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana, with a " Augustus | Templum Augusti ".

The favourable position of the English Jews was shown, among other things, by the visit of Abraham ibn Ezra in 1158, by that of Isaac of Chernigov in 1181, and by the resort to England of the Jews who were exiled from France by Philip Augustus in 1182, among them probably being Judah Sir Leon of Paris.

An anonymous verse periegesis first published at Augsburg in 1600, originally ascribed to Marcianus of Heraclea, was long thought to be the lost work of Scymnus, but this was shown not to be the case by Augustus Meineke ( edition, 1846 ), and the author is now usually known as Pseudo-Scymnus.

The subject is repeated in the first room of the temple, where Augustus is shown praying and making offerings.

In 1692, the early letters were shown to the newly appointed Elector Ernest Augustus ( Sophia Dorothea's father-in-law ).

* 286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.

After the demise of the Second Triumvirate, Augustus restored the outward facade of the free Republic, with governmental power vested in the Roman Senate, the executive magistrates, and the legislative assemblies.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Tiberius falsely accused Agrippina of planning to take sanctuary besides the image of Augustus or with the Roman Army abroad.

The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

After Rome became an Empire under Augustus, the nominal independence of Athens dissolved and its government converged to the normal type for a Roman municipality, with a Senate ( gerousia ) of decuriones.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum ( modern Autun ).

At the same time, the subjugated " allied " tribes of Moesia and Thrace evidently repudiated their treaties with Rome, as they had to be re-conquered by Augustus in 29-8 BC ( see below ).

Ronald Syme points out the similarity of Crassus ' removal from the official record with that of Cornelius Gallus, the contemporary disgraced governor of Egypt, who was recalled by Augustus for assuming inappropriate honours.

At 107th Street Broadway intersects with West End Avenue to form Straus Park with its Titanic Memorial by Augustus Lukeman.

Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus.

He was forced to rely on second-hand accounts when it came to Claudius ( with the exception of Augustus ' letters which had been gathered earlier ) and does not quote the Emperor.

However, on account of the immediate Sassanid threat, Constantius was unable to directly respond to his cousin ’ s usurpation other than by sending missives by which he tried to convince Julian to resign the title of Augustus and be satisfied with that of Caesar.

This was in the medium and longer term of much greater significance to the royal house of France than it was to De Montfort — and with the battle of Bouvines was to secure the position of Philip Augustus vis a vis England and the Empire.

Augustus, the first Emperor ( r. 27 BC – AD 14 ), had nominally shared power with his colleagues, and more formal offices of co-Emperor had existed from Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161 – 80 ) on.

Antioch was Diocletian's primary residence from 299 to 302, while Galerius swapped places with his Augustus on the Middle and Lower Danube.

To usher in the new era, he embarked on ambitious economic, military and cultural programs with the intention of restoring the Empire to the splendour it had seen under the Emperor Augustus.

Beginning with Augustus, Imperator appeared in the title of all Roman monarchs through the extinction of the Empire in 1453.

Jovinus tried to negotiate with the invading Goths of Ataulf ( 412 ), but his proclamation of his brother Sebastianus as Augustus made Ataulf seek alliance with Honorius.

In Vienna on 26 September 1819 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 7 October 1819 ( in person ), Frederick Augustus married firstly with the Archduchess Maria Caroline of Austria ( Maria Karoline Ferdinande Theresia Josephine Demetria ), daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.