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February 20: Battle of Ituzaingó 1827 (MDCCCXXVII) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1827th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
827th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 27th year of the 19th century,
and the 8th year of the 1820s decade. As of
the start of 1827, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place
on Tasmania (called at the time Van Diemen's Land),
on the River Derwent at Hobart.[1] ·
January 15 – Furman University,
founded in 1826, begins its first classes with 10
students, as the Furman Academy and Theological Institution, located at Edgefield,
South Carolina.[2] By the end of 2016,
it will have 2,800 students at its main campus in Greenville,
South Carolina. ·
January 27 – Author Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature),
in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry
is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of
world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its
coming." [3] ·
January 30 – The first public theatre
in Norway, the Christiania
Offentlige Theater, is inaugurated in Oslo. ·
February 20 – Battle of Ituzaingo (Passo
do Rosário): A Brazilian Imperial Army force is tactically defeated by Argentine–Uruguayan troops. ·
February 28 – The Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in United States offering
commercial transportation of both people and freight. ·
March 7 – Brazilian marines sail up the Rio Negro 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 11 – The new state constitution
for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas is ratified, including
a phasing-out of slavery in its Article 13, which declares that "From
and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each
district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the
introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted." [4] The
prohibition of importing slaves from the United States will be lifted when
Texas declares independence in 1836, and the Republic of Texas Constitution
will provide specifically that Africans and "the descendants of
Africans" will not be considered "citizens of the republic". ·
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. ·
March 26 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies
in Vienna, after a prolonged illness. Thousands
of citizens line the streets for the funeral procession 3 days later. April–June[edit] ·
April 7–8 – Battle of Monte
Santiago: A squadron of the Brazilian Imperial Navy defeats Argentine vessels in a major naval
engagement. ·
April 10 – UK: George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime
Minister. ·
April 23 – John Galt founded the city of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. ·
April 24 – Greek War of
Independence – Battle of Phaleron:
Ottoman troops defeat the Greek rebels. ·
April 26–May 24 – The Royal Netherlands
Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes
the first Transatlantic
Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.[5] ·
April 29 – The Fly Whisk Incident
in Ottoman
Algeria: Hussein Dey slaps
French consul Pierre Deval on
the face, eventually leading to the Invasion of
Algiers in 1830. ·
May 20–July 9 – Zarafa, a giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to King Charles X of France,
the first to be seen in Europe for over
three centuries, walks from Marseilles to Paris.[6] ·
May 21 – The Maryland
Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore,
and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum. ·
May 25 – Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru receives a French patent, for the invention of the first fountain penwith a replaceable ink
cartridge. ·
June 4 – French inventor Joseph Niépce sends a package to Louis Daguerre, revealing the existence of
his invention, "heliography", where an image can be reproduced on
to a pewter plate and then reprinted.[7] In 1829, the two will begin a partnership, and Daguerre
will perfect Niépce's photographic process to reproduce images more quickly. ·
June 7 – Greek defenders in Athens surrender to Egyptian forces,
under the command of General Rashid Pasha.[8][9] July–September[edit] ·
July 6 – Greek War of
Independence: The Treaty of London between
France, Britain, and
Russia, demands that the Turksagree to an armistice in Greece. ·
July 14 – The Roman
Catholic Diocese of Honolulu is founded in the Kingdom of Hawaii. ·
August 31 – UK: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich,
becomes Prime Minister of
the UK, following
the death of George Canning. ·
September 4 – Finland: The Great Fire of Turku destroys
¾ of the city, with many human casualties. ·
September 20 – A petition for a land
grant for 215 acres on the north bank of Rio Grande, just across from Paso del Norte
(present day Ciudad Juárez),
is approved; the first residence is built on what is present day El Paso, Texas. ·
September 22 – Joseph Smith will claim in 1838 that
on this day he took the golden plates from the place where they
were stored, and that he began writing down the Book of Mormon from them the following
December. October–December[edit] ·
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. This is the last naval action to be
fought under sail alone.
October 20: Naval Battle of Navarino by Ambroise Louis
Garneray ·
November – The term "socialist" is coined by Robert Owen in his London
periodical, The Co-operative Magazine and Monthly Herald.[10][11][12] ·
November 24 – Voting
is completed in elections for France's 430 member Chamber of
Deputies. The Ultraroyalistes, supporters of King Charles X,
lose their 233-seat majority and finish with 180 seats, the same number as
the opposition Doctrinaires.[13] ·
December 20 – Mexico passes its first "expulsion
law", providing for citizens of Spain to be expelled within the next
six months, and to remain barred from re-entry until the Kingdom of Spain
recognizes Mexico's 1810 declaration of
independence. Ultimately, because of all the exemptions within the expulsion
act, only 1,779 of the 6,610 Spaniards are required to leave.[14] Date unknown[edit] ·
Laos: King Anouvong of Vientiane leads the Laotian Rebellion against Siam, and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima (the Siamese later invade Vientiane, and nearly destroy the whole
city). ·
Englishman John Walker invents
the first friction match, which he names Lucifer. ·
Egypt: Cairo
University School of Medicine is established as the first
African medical school in the Middle East. ·
John James Audubon begins
publication of the 10-volume The Birds of America,
in the United Kingdom. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 7 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian
engineer, inventor (d. 1915) ·
January 28 – Jean Antoine
Villemin, French physician (d. 1892) ·
February 17 – Elisabeth Blomqvist,
Swedish-Finnish educator, feminist (d. 1901) ·
March 7 – John Hall Gladstone,
English chemist (d. 1902) ·
March 8 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) ·
March 25 – Stephen Luce, American admiral (d. 1917) ·
April 2 ·
William Holman Hunt,
British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1910) ·
Emily Kaldwin, Daughter of the Empress of
the Isles, assassin (d. unknown) ·
April 5 – Joseph
Lister, English surgeon, medical pioneer (d. 1912) ·
April 8 – Ramón Emeterio
Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat
(d. 1898) ·
May 11 – Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux, French sculptor, painter (d. 1875) ·
May 19 – Paul-Armand
Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896) ·
May 21 – William P. Sprague,
American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) ·
May 27 – Samuel
F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892) ·
May 31 – Frederic
Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, British general (d. 1905) ·
June 11 – Natalie Zahle, Danish educator, women's
rights activist (d. 1913) ·
June 12 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901) ·
June 13 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian
photographer, businessman (d. 1882) ·
June 24 – Louis Brière de
l'Isle, French general (d. 1897) ·
June 26 – Amédée Courbet,
French admiral (d. 1885) July–December[edit]
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia
·
July 13 – Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1895) ·
July 17 – Sir Frederick
Augustus Abel, British chemist (d. 1902) ·
July 18 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (d. 1857) ·
July 24 – Francisco Solano
López, President of Paraguay (d. 1870) ·
August 5 – Deodoro da Fonseca,
1st President of Brazil (d. 1892) ·
August 28 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia,
granddaughter of Tsar Paul I (d. 1894) ·
September 3 – John Drew Sr.,
Irish-American stage actor, manager (d. 1862) ·
September 27 – Georgiana Archer, German (originally
Scottish) women's rights activist and educator (d. 1882) ·
September 30 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician
(d. 1918) ·
October 12 – Josiah Parsons Cooke,
American chemist (d. 1894) ·
October 16 – Arnold Böcklin,
Swiss painter (d. 1901) ·
October 25 – Marcellin Berthelot,
French chemist (d. 1907) ·
October 29 – Antonio Borrero, 10th President of Ecuador
(d. 1911) ·
November 7 – Antti Ahlström,
Finnish industrialist (d. 1896) ·
November 9 – Carl Friedrich Claus,
German chemist (d. 1900) ·
November 10 – J.T. Wamelink, American composer (d. 1910) ·
November 18 – Mehmed Ali
Pasha, Prussian-born Ottoman military leader (d. 1878) ·
November 26 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader,
cofounder of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church (d. 1915) ·
December 3 – Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri,
Indian religious reformer (d. 1906) ·
December 17 – Baron
Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Governor of the Duchy of Bucovina,
member of the Herrenhaus (d. 1893) ·
December 23 – Wilhelm von
Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (d. 1871) Date unknown[edit] ·
Amanda Cajander, Finnish medical reformer
(d. 1871) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 5 – Prince
Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the
British throne (b. 1763) ·
January 19 – Ludwig von
Brauchitsch, Prussian general (b. 1757) ·
February 19 – Armand
Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general, diplomat (b. 1773) ·
February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri,
Texas legislator, colonizer (b. 1759) ·
February 28 – Thomas Holloway,
English portrait painter, engraver (b. 1748) ·
March 5 ·
Pierre-Simon Laplace,
French mathematician (b. 1749) ·
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
(b. 1745) ·
March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven,
German composer (b. 1770) ·
March 31 – Marie Barch, Danish ballerina (b. 1744) ·
April 12 – Michele Troja, Italian physician (b. 1747) ·
April 29 ·
Deborah Sampson, first American female
soldier (b. 1760) ·
Rufus King, American lawyer, politician, and
diplomat (b. 1755) ·
May 27 – Melesina Trench, Irish-born writer,
socialite (b. 1768) ·
June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham,
American novelist (b. 1854) July–December[edit]
·
July 14 – Augustin-Jean
Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788) ·
July 27 – Fredrique
Eleonore Baptiste, Finnish actress and playwright ·
August 8 – George Canning, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) ·
August 12 – William Blake, English poet, artist
(b. 1757) ·
September 10 – Ugo Foscolo, Greek-born Italian writer,
revolutionary and poet (b. 1778) ·
November 7 – Maria
Theresia of Tuscany, Queen of Saxony (b. 1767) ·
December 3 – Servando Teresa
de Mier, Mexican preacher (b. 1765) ·
December 21 – Anton II, Catholicos
Patriarch of Georgia (b. 1762) References[edit] 1.
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^ Randolph B. Campbell, et al., The Laws of
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^ Timothy E. Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835 (University
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