Historical Events In April - 27

1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening on this day in history.  

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

1859  On this day in history "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard  

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

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 this day in history president Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports  

1861  On April - 27 west Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US  

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

1861  On April - 27 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  On this day in history body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.  

1865  On this day in history cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered  

1865  On this day in history steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000  

1865  On this day in history emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)  

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

1869  On April - 27 william Victor Harris, composer  

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on April - 27.  

1871  On April - 27 arthur Finlay Nevin, composer  

1871  On April - 27 sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59  

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on April - 27.  

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

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

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) on this day in history.  

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

1881  On this day in history pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad  

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on April - 27.  

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

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

1890  On April - 27 french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan  

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on April - 27.  

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

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1410  On April - 27 birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia  

1495  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566) was born on this day in history.  

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.  

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.  

1701  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia  

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

1718  On this day in history 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 April - 27.  

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 this day in history.  

1404  On April - 27 philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62  

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

1599  Death of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538) on April - 27.  

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

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