January 16 27 BC – The Roman Empire is established when the title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate 1412 – The Medici family is appointed as the official bankers of the Papacy 1547 – Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible, crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in […]

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