Historical Events In April - 27

1841  On this day in history 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  "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard on this day in history.  

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  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.  

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports on April - 27.  

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

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.  

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on April - 27.  

1863  On this day in history 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  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on this day in history.  

1865  Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered on this day in history.  

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

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on April - 27.  

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  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.  

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

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

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

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

1875  On April - 27 andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)  

1877  On this day in history opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)  

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

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

1882  On this day in history ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies  

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on April - 27.  

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

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan on April - 27.  

1891  On April - 27 sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer  

1892  On April - 27 louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)  

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

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  On this day in history 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  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on this day in history.  

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  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on April - 27.  

1124  On April - 27 alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies  

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

1521  On April - 27 death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50  

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

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

1613  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on this day in history.