1827

Year '1827' ('MDCCCXXVII') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

★ ''Also see:'' List of years in Art.

Contents

Events of 1827

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1827

January - March

★ February 20 - South America: Battle of Ituzaingo or Passo do Rosário - A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets in combat Argentinean-Uruguayan troops.

★ February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

★ March 4 - The Sigma Phi Society is founded on the campus of Union College in Schenectady, New York.

★ March 7 - Brazilian marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.

★ March 7 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

★ March 16 - ''Freedom's Journal'', the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.

April - June

★ April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul Decalina on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria.

★ April 7-8 - Battle of Monte Santiago: Naval engagement between a squadron of the Brazilian Imperial Navy and Argentinean vessels. Major Brazilian victory.

★ April 10 - UK: George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister.

★ April 24 - Battle of Phaleron during Greek War of Independence

★ May 21 - The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.

July - September

★ July 6 - Greek War of Independence: Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.

★ July 14 - Kingdom of Hawaii: Diocese of Honolulu founded.

★ August 31 - UK: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the UK following the death of George Canning.

★ September 4 - Finland: Great Fire of Turku.

★ September 22 - Joseph Smith Jr. obtains the Book of Mormon, for him to translate.

October - December

★ October 1 - Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828: The Russians under Ivan Paskevich storm Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Eastern Armenia.

★ October 20 - Greek War of Independence: Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.

Undated

★ Laos: King Anouvong of Vientiane declares war on Siam and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima, the Siamese later invaded Vientiane and nearly destroyed the whole city.

★ Englishman John Walker invents ''Lucifer'' matches.

★ Egypt: Establishment of Cairo University School of Medicine as the first African School of medicine and in middle east.

Births

January - June

★ March 8 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)

★ April 5 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)

★ April 8 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)

★ May 11 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)

★ May 19 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)

★ May 27 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)

★ June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)

July - December

★ July 13 - Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston (d. 1895)

★ July 17 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (d. 1902)

★ September 30 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)

★ November 26 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)

★ 3 December- Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri was born on the Thursday 3rd December, 1827 at Bharatpur (Rajasthan)
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Deaths

January - June

★ February 19 - Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat (b. 1773)

★ March 5

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★ Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)

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★ Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)

★ March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)

★ May 27 - Melesina Trench, Irish born writer and socialite (b. 1768)

★ April 29-Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (b.1760)

July - December

★ August 8 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)

★ August 12 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)

★ November 7 - Maria Theresia of Tuscany, Queen of Saxony (b. 1767)

★ December 3 - Servando Teresa de Mier, preacher (b. 1765)
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