Notable Historical Events - 1827
1827 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java |
Jan 17 |
Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander |
Jan 21 |
Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing |
Feb 7 |
Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC) |
Feb 27 |
1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans |
Feb 28 |
1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered |
Mar 7 |
Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. |
Mar 15 |
Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes |
Mar 15 |
University of Toronto is chartered |
Mar 16 |
1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing |
Mar 29 |
20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna |
Apr 2 |
Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils |
Apr 7 |
English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches |
Apr 23 |
William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays. |
Jun 5 |
Turks capture the Acropolis & take Athens during Greek War of Independence |
Jul 4 |
Slavery abolished in NY |
Jul 23 |
1st US swimming school opens (Boston Mass) |
Aug 10 |
Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada) |
Aug 17 |
Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord |
Aug 22 |
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru. |
Sep 21 |
According to Joseph Smith Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon |
Oct 1 |
The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia. |
Oct 15 |
Charles Darwin admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge |
Oct 20 |
Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet |
Nov 15 |
Creek-indians lose all their property in US |
Nov 17 |
The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. |
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