Historical Events In April - 27

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

1857  On this day in history establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited  

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

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

1860  On April - 27 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 April - 27.  

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  On April - 27 georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer  

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

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

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on April - 27.  

1865  On this day in history cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered  

1865  On this day in history steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000  

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on April - 27.  

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

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

1870  On April - 27 heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi  

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

1871  On this day in history sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59  

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

1873  On this day in history harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)  

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter  

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

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on April - 27.  

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

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

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  On April - 27 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 April - 27.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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