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 this day in history thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry  

1861  On April - 27 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  On this day in history west Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US  

1861  On April - 27 president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus  

1861  On this day in history georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer  

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

1865  On this day in history 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up  

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on April - 27.  

1865  On April - 27 cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered  

1865  On April - 27 steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000  

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 April - 27.  

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi  

1871  On April - 27 arthur Finlay Nevin, composer  

1871  On this day in history sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59  

1872  On April - 27 ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70  

1873  On this day in history harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)  

1874  On this day in history white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms  

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

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.  

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on this day in history.  

1881  On this day in history ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76  

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

1883  On April - 27 hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter  

1884  On this day in history louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)  

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan on this day in history.  

1891  On this day in history sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer  

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on April - 27.  

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.  

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

1623  On this day in history birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer  

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on April - 27.  

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on this day in history.  

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on April - 27.  

1718  On April - 27 birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)  

1724  On April - 27 birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer  

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on this day in history.  

1076  On this day in history willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies  

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on April - 27.  

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1521  Death of Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 on this day in history.  

1599  On April - 27 death of maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)  

1605  On this day in history leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69  

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