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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on this day in history.   

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

1865  Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered on April - 27.   

1865  On April - 27 steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000   

1865  On this day in history emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)   

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

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on April - 27.   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on April - 27.   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.   

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  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  On April - 27 opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)   

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on this day in history.   

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on April - 27.   

1882  Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies on this day in history.   

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  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 April - 27.   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  On this day in history birth of ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer   

0630  On this day in history death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

1076  On this day in history willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies   

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

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1521  On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

1599  On this day in history death of maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)   

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

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