Historical Events In April - 27

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

1857  On April - 27 establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited   

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 April - 27.   

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  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  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 this day in history.   

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

1865  On April - 27 body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

1865  On April - 27 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 this day in history.   

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

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on April - 27.   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on this day in history.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on April - 27.   

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

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  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on this day in history.   

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

1882  On April - 27 ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

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

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

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on April - 27.   

1892  Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) on April - 27.   

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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 April - 27 birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer   

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  On April - 27 birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  On April - 27 birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

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

0630  On April - 27 death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

1076  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on this day in history.   

1124  On April - 27 alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies   

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 April - 27.   

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

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