1827

Events

• February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo
• February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• March 1 St David's College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter opens its doors to its first students.
• March 7 – Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins
• March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
• April – Husain Dei of Algeria slaps the French consul Decalina to the face – France ends up declaring war
• April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
• May 14 – Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced for three years each
• May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
• June - Nicphore Nipce makes a true photograph.
• July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
• August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning
• October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.
• September 21 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon

• Fire in Turku
• Englishman John Walker invents Lucifer matches

Births

• March 8 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist, (d. 1875)
• April 5- Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic
• May 19 - Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
• June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
• July 13 - Hugh O'Brien, mayor of Boston
• July 17 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist.
• November 26 - Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder or Seventh-day Adventism
• George M. Harding, architect

Deaths

• March 5 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
• March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
• August 8 - George Canning, British statesman and Prime Minister (b. 1770)
• August 12 - William Blake, poet (b. 1757)
• Muttusvami Dikshitar, Carnatic music composer
• Jos Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru.

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