-23

This page relates to the year -23 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the Candace (queen) of Méroé Amanichakété sends its troops in Thébaïde to plunder the island of Philae. The prefect Roman Pétrone response and destroyed Napata in Nubie. The inhabitants of the city are taken along in slavery (fine in -21).

Auguste appendix Low the Nubie, then joins together the Cyrénaïque with the province of Egypt.

Famine with Rome. The Roman Senate and the people make pressure on Auguste so that it agrees to deal with the corn supply of the city, which it accepts. It is the first competence which it withdraws with the republican magistrates.
Octave Auguste, following a serious disease and a political crisis, deposits the consulate and revet the power tribunician with life.
Agrippa is associated with the empire.
the manpower of the Sénat, which during the civil wars had reached thousand members, is limited to 600 members after the elimination of elements considered as undesirable by the emperor.

Agrippa undertakes the land surveying of the Roman Empire.
Diodore completes its historical library in 40 volumes.
the lyric Poète Horace writes its three books of 88 odes.
In Judaea, Hérode Ier Large the makes build the Hérodion, a strengthened palate.
Completion of the Gantry of Octavie and creation of the library of Marcellus, with Rome.

Marcellus, son-in-law and heir apparent to Auguste.
Aulius Terentius Varro Murena, consul, carried out following the conspiracy of Fannius Caepio.

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