Historical Events In April - 27

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

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on April - 27.  

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

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

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on this day in history.  

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

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

1865  On April - 27 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  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.  

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

1872  On this day in history ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70  

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

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

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 April - 27.  

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on April - 27.  

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

1882  On April - 27 ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies  

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

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

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

1891  On this day in history sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer  

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history.  

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on April - 27.  

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on this day in history.  

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  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on April - 27.  

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on this day in history.  

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  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on April - 27.  

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

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 April - 27.