1827

1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo
• February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• March 1 St David's College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter opens its doors to its first students.
• March 7 – Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins
• March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
• April – Husain Dei of Algeria slaps the French consul Decalina on the face – France ends up declaring war
• April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
• May 14 – Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced for three years each
• May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
• June - Nicéphore Niépce 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.
• July 14 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
• 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

• King Anouvong of Vientiane declares war on Siam and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima.
• Fire in Turku
• Englishman John Walker invents Lucifer matches

Births

• March 8 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
• April 5- Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)
• May 11 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• May 19 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
• 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)
• November 26 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
• George M. Harding, architect

Deaths

• March 5 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
• March 5 - 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)
• August 8 - George Canning, British statesman and Prime Minister (b. 1770)
• August 12 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
• Muttusvami Dikshitar, Indian composer
• José Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru