Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

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

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

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

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  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  On this day in history president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer on this day in history.   

1863  On this day in history battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL   

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

1865  On this day in history body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.   

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 April - 27.   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1869  On this day in history william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On this day in history heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

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

1871  On April - 27 sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

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 this day in history.   

1874  On April - 27 white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) on April - 27.   

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

1884  On this day in history louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)   

1890  On April - 27 french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

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

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

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.   

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 April - 27.   

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1724  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

1521  On April - 27 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  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on April - 27.