Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening on this day in history.   

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 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 April - 27.   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US on April - 27.   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus on April - 27.   

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

1863  On this day in history battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL   

1865  1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up on April - 27.   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on this day in history.   

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

1865  On April - 27 steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000   

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

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

1869  On April - 27 william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on this day in history.   

1871  On this day in history arthur Finlay Nevin, composer   

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

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

1873  On April - 27 harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)   

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

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 this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on April - 27.   

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

1890  French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan on April - 27.   

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  On April - 27 birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia   

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  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 April - 27.   

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

1718  Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) was born on April - 27.   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1613  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on this day in history.