About February 27

February 27, 2025 is the 58th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 355 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 27

  • 425 –
    The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
  • 1594 –
    Henry IV is crowned King of France.
  • 1617 –
    Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
  • 1700 –
    The island of New Britain is discovered.
  • 1776 –
    American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
  • 1801 –
    Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
  • 1860 –
    Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
  • 1870 –
    The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • 1900 –
    The British Labour Party is founded.
  • 1902 –
    Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
  • 1933 –
    Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
  • 1939 –
    United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
  • 1951 –
    The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
  • 1971 –
    Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
  • 1973 –
    The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
  • 1976 –
    The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  • 1989 –
    Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
  • 2007 –
    The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

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