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  On this day in history "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 April - 27.   

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports on this day in history.   

1861  On April - 27 west Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US   

1861  On April - 27 president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

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  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 April - 27.   

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  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  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on April - 27.   

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

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

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on April - 27.   

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 April - 27.   

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  On April - 27 pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  On April - 27 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  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  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 this day in history.   

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

1623  On this day in history birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

1650  On April - 27 birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

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

1718  On this day in history birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69   

1613  On this day in history death of robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)