23 BC - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century

Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s

Years: 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC

Events

• Imperator Caesar Augustus becomes Roman Consul for the eleventh time. His partner is Aulus Terentius Varro Murena.
• Octavian Caesar Augustus relinquishes position of Consul of Rome, attains that of Tribune of Rome and Princeps, or "First Citizen." (see Roman Empire).
• Herod the Great builds a palace in Jerusalem and the fortress Herodian in Judaea. He also marries his third wife, named Mariamne, the daughter of high priest Simon.
• The Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius 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.
• Ma'nu III Saphul becomes ruler of Osroene.
• Following coinage reform, the as coin was struck in reddish pure copper, instead of bronze. The denominations of sestertius and dupondius were introduced as large bronze coins.

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