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 April - 27 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  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on April - 27.   

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

1861  On April - 27 president Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US on this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history 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  On this day in history cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered   

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  On April - 27 opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on April - 27.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.   

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 this day in history.   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on April - 27.   

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

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

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  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on this day in history.   

1495  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566) was born on this day in history.   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.   

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

1724  On this day in history birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer   

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

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

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1605  On April - 27 leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69   

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