Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

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

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

1859  On this day in history "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1859  "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard on this day in history.   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on April - 27.   

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

1861  On April - 27 president Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports   

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

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

1861  On this day in history georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL on April - 27.   

1865  1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up on this day in history.   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on April - 27.   

1865  Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered on April - 27.   

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 April - 27.   

1867  On this day in history opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  On April - 27 william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On April - 27 heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on this day in history.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on April - 27.   

1872  On April - 27 ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70   

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

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on April - 27.   

1875  On this day in history andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

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

1881  On April - 27 pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  On this day in history ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on this day in history.   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on April - 27.   

1884  On April - 27 louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)   

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan on this day in history.   

1891  On April - 27 sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  On this day in history louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)   

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1410  On April - 27 birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia   

1495  On April - 27 birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  On April - 27 birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on April - 27.   

1701  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  On this day in history 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 April - 27 death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

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

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.   

1404  On April - 27 philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62   

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 this day in history.   

1605  Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1613  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on April - 27.