Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

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

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history 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  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  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on this day in history.   

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

1869  On this day in history william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On April - 27 heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

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  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  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on April - 27.   

1875  On April - 27 andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) on April - 27.   

1881  On April - 27 pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on April - 27.   

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on this day in history.   

1892  On April - 27 louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)   

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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 this day in history birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on this day in history.   

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

1724  On April - 27 birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer   

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1404  On April - 27 philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62   

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

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