A New Calendar in The Province of Asia
Sometime around 9BCE, the provincial council of the province of Asia decided that it needed to try to find a unique way to honour Augustus. As such, it decreed a competition to find such an honour with the winner to receive a crown from the province. It was Paullus himself, while proconsul of Asia, who came up with the winning proposal, specifically a new calendar for the province of Asia, wherein the new year would start on September 23, Augustus' birthday.
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