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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)
• January 21, 1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
• January 27, 1827 – Nakahama Manjirō, Japanese translator (d. 1898)
• April 2, 1827 – William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
• April 5, 1827 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery (d. 1912)
• April 11, 1827 – Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
• April 16, 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet (d. 1879)
• May 1, 1827 – Jules Breton, French painter (d. 1906)
• May 4, 1827 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
• May 11, 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• May 16, 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
• May 27, 1827 – Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
• August 5, 1827 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian statesman (d. 1892)
• August 10, 1827 – Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (d. 1870)
• August 22, 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
• October 29, 1827 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
• October 31, 1827 – Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
• November 17, 1827 – Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (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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