Historical Events In April - 27

1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening on April - 27.   

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on this day in history.   

1859  "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard on April - 27.   

1859  On April - 27 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on this day in history.   

1861  On April - 27 president Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus   

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports on April - 27.   

1861  On this day in history west Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on April - 27.   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL on this day in history.   

1865  On April - 27 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up   

1865  On April - 27 body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

1865  On April - 27 cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered   

1865  On this day in history steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on this day in history.   

1867  On April - 27 opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  On this day in history william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on April - 27.   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on April - 27.   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on this day in history.   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) on this day in history.   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on April - 27.   

1882  On this day in history ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on this day in history.   

1884  Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets) on this day in history.   

1890  On this day in history french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

1891  On this day in history sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on this day in history.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.   

1495  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566) was born on April - 27.   

1623  On this day in history birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

1650  On this day in history birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on this day in history.   

1707  On April - 27 birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  On this day in history birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on April - 27.   

0630  On this day in history death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

1076  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on April - 27.   

1124  On this day in history alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies   

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1521  On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

1599  Death of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538) on April - 27.   

1605  On April - 27 leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69   

1613  On April - 27 death of robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)