Events Tagged: "title"

Octavian becomes Augustus - Senate grants title and proconsular power, First Settlement creates Principate, Roman Empire begins

Augustus named Pater Patriae - Father of the Fatherland, highest honor, universal recognition of achievements

Boniface III becomes sixty-sixth pope - obtains title 'Universal Bishop' from Emperor Phocas

Ivan III adopts title 'Sovereign of All Russia' - claims inheritance of Byzantine Empire after marrying Sophia Paleologus