Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, are discovered the awakening.   

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited.   

1859  "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard.   

1859  "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.   

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US.   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer.   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL   

1865  1450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

1865  Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered.   

1865  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, results in the deaths of up to 2000   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars).   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris).   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer.   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

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

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms.   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple).   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)   

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad.   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter.   

1884  Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)   

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer.   

1892  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  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 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  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  On April - 27 birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) was born on April - 27.   

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

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on April - 27.   

1076  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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.