Page 3: 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 April - 27 establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited   

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

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

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on April - 27.   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus on April - 27.   

1861  On this day in history 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  On April - 27 president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

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

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL on this day in history.   

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

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  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000 on April - 27.   

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  On April - 27 william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on this day in history.   

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

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 April - 27 white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms   

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

1877  On April - 27 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on April - 27.   

1892  On this day in history louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)   

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1410  On this day in history birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia   

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  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 this day in history.   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on this day in history.   

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

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 April - 27.   

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

1404  On this day in history philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62   

1521  Death of Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 on April - 27.   

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 this day in history.   

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