1827 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1827?
- February 28, 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- March 7, 1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- April 7, 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- July 4, 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State.
- August 22, 1827 – José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- October 1, 1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
- October 20, 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
- October 27, 1827 – Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Who Were Born In The Year 1827?
- January 2, 1827 – Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
- January 7, 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- January 27, 1827 – Nakahama Manjirō, Japanese translator (d. 1898)
- March 8, 1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
- April 11, 1827 – Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
- April 14, 1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
- April 16, 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet (d. 1879)
- April 28, 1827 – William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor (d. 1904)
- May 1, 1827 – Jules Breton, French painter (d. 1906)
- May 16, 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
- May 19, 1827 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
- May 21, 1827 – William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899)
- June 12, 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
- June 13, 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
- August 10, 1827 – Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (d. 1870)
- September 5, 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
- September 30, 1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
- October 29, 1827 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
- November 17, 1827 – Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
- December 10, 1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
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