Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  On this day in history 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  "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard on this day in history.   

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  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus on April - 27.   

1861  On this day in history 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  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on April - 27.   

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

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

1865  On this day in history body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

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

1865  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000 on this day in history.   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on April - 27.   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on April - 27.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

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

1871  On this day in history sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

1872  On this day in history ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70   

1873  On this day in history harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)   

1874  On this day in history white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms   

1875  On April - 27 andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

1877  On April - 27 opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)   

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on this day in history.   

1881  On April - 27 ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on April - 27.   

1883  On this day in history hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter   

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

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on this day in history.   

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on April - 27.   

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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  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.   

1650  On April - 27 birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on this day in history.   

1718  Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) was born on this day in history.   

1724  On this day in history birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer   

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on April - 27.   

1076  On April - 27 willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies   

1124  On April - 27 alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies   

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on April - 27.   

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

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