Historical Events In July - 27

1816  On July - 27 uS troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves  

1820  On July - 27 john Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)  

1822  Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60 on July - 27.  

1824  The birth of Alexandre Dumas, French author on this day in history.  

1824  On this day in history alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)  

1828  Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies on July - 27.  

1830  On July - 27 revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X  

1833  Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 on July - 27.  

1836  Adelaide, South Australia founded on this day in history.  

1837  US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC on July - 27.  

1839  Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England on July - 27.  

1840  Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on July - 27.  

1841  On July - 27 mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies  

1844  On July - 27 fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC  

1844  On July - 27 fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC  

1844  John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 on July - 27.  

1848  Vladimir de Pachmann, painter on July - 27.  

1857  Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator on July - 27.  

1861  Union Gen George McClellan took command of Potamic Army on this day in history.  

1861  Battle of Mathias Point, VA on July - 27.  

1862  On this day in history steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico  

1862  On this day in history hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die  

1864  Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) on July - 27.  

1864  On July - 27 margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies  

1865  On this day in history welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.  

1866  On July - 27 atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)  

1866  Cyrus W. Field lays the first successful underwater telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe (after two failed attempts) on this day in history.  

1870  Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) on July - 27.  

1872  Stanislav Binicki, composer on July - 27.  

1878  Th to de Weeme, painter on this day in history.  

1879  C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene on July - 27.  

1879  Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza) on this day in history.  

1880  Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out on this day in history.  

1880  On this day in history a P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil  

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1452  Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan (1494 . .1500) was born on July - 27.  

1502  Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer was born on this day in history.  

1518  Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses was born on this day in history.  

1609  On this day in history birth of heinrich Pape, composer  

1612  Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad was born on July - 27.  

1625  On this day in history birth of edward Montagu, England  

1667  Jean Bernoulli, mathematician was born on this day in history.  

1733  On this day in history birth of jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)  

0082  On July - 27 st Joseph of Arimathea, dies  

0432  Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies on this day in history.  

0916  Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies on this day in history.  

1101  On July - 27 koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies  

1128  On July - 27 willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle  

1214  On July - 27 eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle  

1227  On this day in history otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies  

1233  On this day in history ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45