29 BC

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Year 29 BC was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

• Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus becomes Roman Consul for the fifth time. His partner is Sextus Appuleius. He was granted the title of imperator, and for the third time in Roman history the doors of the Temple of Janus were closed, signaling peace.
• M. Crassus campaigns successfully in the Balkans, killing the king of the Bastarnae with his own hand, but is denied the right to dedicate the spolia opima by Octavian

By topic

Literature

• March 1 — Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.
• Composition of Aeneid by Virgil begins.

Births

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Deaths

• Mariamme, executed wife of king Herod the Great (or 28 BC)
• Marcus Terentius Varro Roman author

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