1827

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 - 1827 - 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832

Events

• February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo
• February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
• April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
• May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
• June - Nicéphore Nièpce 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

Year in topic

• 1827 in literature
• 1827 in science

Births

• April 5- Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic
• May 19 - Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (+ 1896)
• June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (+ 1901)
• July 13 - Hugh O'Brien, mayor of Boston
• George M. Harding, architect

Deaths

• March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 56, German composer
• August 8 - George Canning, aged 57, British statesman and Prime Minister
• August 12 - William Blake, poet

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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