Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  On April - 27 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  On this day in history thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry   

1861  On this day in history president Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus   

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 this day in history president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

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

1867  On this day in history opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on this day in history.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

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

1871  On April - 27 sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on this day in history.   

1874  On this day in history white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms   

1875  On April - 27 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  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on April - 27.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on April - 27.   

1883  On April - 27 hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter   

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

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

1891  On this day in history sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  On April - 27 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  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566) was born on this day in history.   

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

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

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  On April - 27 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 April - 27.   

1076  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on April - 27.   

1124  On April - 27 alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies   

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on April - 27.   

1521  On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

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  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on April - 27.