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Historical Events on February 27

Calendar

837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)

1531 Evangelical German towns form Schmalkaldische Union

1557 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London

1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral

1594 Henry IV crowned King of France

King
Henry IV of France

1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci

1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English

1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname

1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I

1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London

1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association

1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered

1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao

1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction

1803 Great fire in Bombay, India

Event of Interest

1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency

16th US President
Abraham Lincoln

1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw

1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing

1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)

1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"

1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress

1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission

1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University

1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground

Election of Interest

1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election

19th US President
Rutherford B. Hayes

1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)

1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine

1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw