1827

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1824 1825 1826 - 1827 - 1828 1829 1830\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1827 in art
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\n1827 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1827
\nList of religious leaders in 1827\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo\n* February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.\n* March 7 – Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins\n* March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered\n* April – Husain Dei of Algeria slaps the French consul Decalina to the face – France ends up declaring war\n* April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister\n* May 7 – Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced for three years each\n* May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.\n* June - Nicéphore Nièpce makes a true photograph.\n* July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.\n* August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning\n* October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.\n* 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 \n* Fire in Turku\n* Englishman John Walker invents Lucifer matches

Births

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

Deaths

\n* March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)\n* August 8 - George Canning, British statesman and Prime Minister (b. 1770)\n* August 12 - William Blake, poet (b. 1757)\n* Muttusvami Dikshitar, Carnatic music composer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n