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 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 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 April - 27.   

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

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.   

1861  On April - 27 georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL on April - 27.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1865  On this day in history emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on April - 27.   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on April - 27.   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.   

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

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  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  On April - 27 ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76   

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  On this day in history french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

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  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  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 April - 27.   

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

0630  On this day in history death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

1076  On April - 27 willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies   

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

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1613  On April - 27 death of robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)