Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

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

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 April - 27 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up   

1865  On April - 27 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 this day in history.   

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

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on April - 27.   

1869  On April - 27 william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On April - 27 heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  On April - 27 arthur Finlay Nevin, composer   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

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

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 April - 27.   

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

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

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

1891  On April - 27 sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1495  On April - 27 birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

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

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

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

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

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

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

1124  On this day in history alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies   

1404  On this day in history 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  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.