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Augustus

Emperor of Rome · About 28 BC–AD 14

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Began 28 BC
“he should be rather called Augustus”
Ended AD 14
“the same news came together that Augustus was dead, and that Tiberius Nero was Emperour”

Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1), counted from the year the Senate gave him that name.

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.

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