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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 7, 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
• April 10, 1827 – Lew Wallace, American Civil War figure and novelist (d. 1905)
• 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 4, 1827 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
• 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)
• July 19, 1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
• August 5, 1827 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian statesman (d. 1892)
• August 22, 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
• September 16, 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
• September 30, 1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
• October 29, 1827 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
• October 31, 1827 – Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
• November 26, 1827 – Ellen G. White, American leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
• December 10, 1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)

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