February 27

2024 Calendar

February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year (308 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

425 – The University of Constantinople is founded.
907 - Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, creating the Liao Dynasty in Northern China.
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, expelling the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV of France is crowned king.
1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo.
1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese to a great victory over the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1655 - The lighthouse at Lindesnes, the southernmost tip of Norway, is first lit, with 13 candles.
1700 – The island of New Britain is first reached by a European, on an expedition led by William Dampier.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 - American Revolutionary War: The British House of Commons votes against further war in America.
1812 – Near the city of Rosario, Manuel Belgrano raises what later develops into the Flag of Argentina.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in New York City that contributes to him being elected US president.
1861 – Russian troops kill 5 protesters in Warsaw.
1864 – American Civil War: The first northern prisoners arrive the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 – The Flag of Japan is adopted as the national flag on merchant ships.
1881 - First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 - George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 – The UK Labour Party is founded.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British officers receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

1901 – 2000

1912 - In Sudan, the first rail track from Khartoum to El Obeid opened.
1916 - British passenger steamer Maloja is sunk by a German U-boat two miles from Dover, killing 155 people.
1921 – The International Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1925 - Adolf Hitler re-founds the Nazi Party in Munich, ordering it to be built up on a national level.
1930 – Bouvet Island becomes a dependent territory of Norway.
1932 - Nature magazine releases an article by James Chadwick, describing the existence of the neutron.
1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin is set on fire.
1939 - The United States Supreme Court rules sit-in protests as illegal.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover Carbon-14.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Java Sea begins.
1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest begins in Berlin.
1948 – President of Finland Juho Kusti Paasikivi signs a defence treaty with Joseph Stalin.
1951 – The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, limiting the US president to two terms in office.
1961 – The first Congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 - Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to kill South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 – Juan Bosch is elected President of the Dominican Republic.
1964 - The Italian Government asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1973 – Wounded Knee Incident standoff at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota begins.
1976 – The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara declares its independence.
1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 - A violent pogrom takes place against the Armenian Community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan.
1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 – US President George H. W. Bush declares that "Kuwait is liberated".
1992 - Jack Unterweger is arrested by FBI agents in Miami, Florida on suspicion of several murders.
1993 - Niger holds its first Presidential Election.
1994 - The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, come to an end.
1995 - A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan kills around 100 people and injures over 150.

From 2001

2002 – Godhra train bombing: A Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya.
2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at Stansted Airport. The evacuation procedures later come in for criticism.
2004 – The bombing of Superferry 14 by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116 people.
2004 - The initial version of the John Jay Report is released into the Catholic sex abuse scandal in the United States.
2005 - Million Dollar Baby is the most successful movie at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony.
2007 – The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls by 9%, its largest drop in 10 years.
2010 – 2010 Cauquenes earthquake: A major magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Chile, killing around 500 people.
2015 - Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is shot dead by an unknown assailant shortly before midnight.