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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.

Events of 1827

January - June

  • February 20 - South America: Battle of Ituzaingo or Passo do Rosário - A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets Argentinean- Uruguayan troops in combat.
  • February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America 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 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 - 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 - Greek War of Independence: The Battle of Phaleron is fought.
  • 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 - December

October 20:Naval Battle of Navarino by Carneray

July 14-Augustin-Jean Fresnel dies

  • 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 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 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.

Births

1827 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1827
MDCCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita 2580
Armenian calendar 1276
ԹՎ ՌՄՀԶ
Assyrian calendar 6577
Bahá'í calendar -17–-16
Bengali calendar 1234
Berber calendar 2777
British Regnal year Geo. 4 – 8 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar 2371
Burmese calendar 1189
Byzantine calendar 7335–7336
Chinese calendar 丙戌年十二月初四日
(4463/4523-12-4)
— to —
丁亥年十一月十四日
(4464/4524-11-14)
Coptic calendar 1543–1544
Ethiopian calendar 1819–1820
Hebrew calendar 5587–5588
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1883–1884
 - Shaka Samvat 1749–1750
 - Kali Yuga 4928–4929
Holocene calendar 11827
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 827–828
Iranian calendar 1205–1206
Islamic calendar 1242–1243
Japanese calendar Bunsei 10
(文政10年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4160
Minguo calendar 85 before ROC
民前85年
Thai solar calendar 2370
  • 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 21 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
  • May 27 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
  • June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
  • 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 10 - J.T. Wamelink, American composer (d. 1910)
  • November 26 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
  • 3 December- Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri, religious reformer (d. 1906)

Deaths

  • January 5 - Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Heir-Presumptive to the British Throne. (b. 1763)
  • February 19 - Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat (b. 1773)
  • March 5
    • Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
    • 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)
  • 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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