Page 3: Historical Events In July - 27
Saturday, 13 September 2025
1816 On July - 27 uS troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1820 On this day in history john Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1822 On this day in history joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60
1824 The birth of Alexandre Dumas, French author on July - 27.
1824 On this day in history alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies on this day in history.
1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X on July - 27.
1833 On July - 27 bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1836 On this day in history adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 On July - 27 uS Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England on this day in history.
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on July - 27.
1841 On this day in history mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies
1844 Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC on this day in history.
1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC on July - 27.
1844 John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 on this day in history.
1848 On this day in history vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator on July - 27.
1861 On July - 27 union Gen George McClellan took command of Potamic Army
1861 On July - 27 battle of Mathias Point, VA
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico on this day in history.
1862 On this day in history hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1864 Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) on this day in history.
1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies on July - 27.
1865 On this day in history welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 On this day in history atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1866 On July - 27 cyrus W. Field lays the first successful underwater telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe (after two failed attempts).
1870 On this day in history joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 Stanislav Binicki, composer on July - 27.
1878 On July - 27 th to de Weeme, painter
1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene on this day in history.
1879 On July - 27 francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1880 On this day in history battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out
1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil on this day in history.
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