Historical Events In April - 27

1841  On April - 27 imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening   

1857  On this day in history establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited   

1859  On April - 27 "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1859  On April - 27 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1860  On April - 27 thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry   

1861  On this day in history president Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus   

1861  On April - 27 president Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US on this day in history.   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus on April - 27.   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on this day in history.   

1863  On April - 27 battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL   

1865  On April - 27 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 April - 27.   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on this day in history.   

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

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on this day in history.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

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

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on April - 27.   

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

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on April - 27.   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on this day in history.   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) on April - 27.   

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

1881  On April - 27 pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on April - 27.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on this day in history.   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on this day in history.   

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

1890  On this day in history french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

1891  On April - 27 sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on this day in history.   

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1410  On this day in history birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia   

1495  On this day in history birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on April - 27.   

1707  On this day in history birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

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

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on April - 27.   

0630  On April - 27 death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

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

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.   

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

1521  Death of Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 on April - 27.   

1599  On this day in history death of maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)   

1605  Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 on April - 27.   

1613  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on April - 27.