Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  On April - 27 imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening   

1857  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on April - 27.   

1859  On this day in history "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1859  "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard on this day in history.   

1860  On April - 27 thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry   

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

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  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on April - 27.   

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 this day in history.   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on April - 27.   

1865  On April - 27 cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered   

1865  On this day in history steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000   

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

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on April - 27.   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on this day in history.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  On this day in history arthur Finlay Nevin, composer   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1872  On April - 27 ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on this day in history.   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on April - 27.   

1875  On this day in history andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

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

1881  On April - 27 ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76   

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

1883  On April - 27 hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter   

1884  Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets) on April - 27.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

1701  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  On this day in history 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  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 April - 27.   

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

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  On April - 27 death of maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)   

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

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