January 27 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 40 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 98
  Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
• 661
  The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali.
• 1142
  Song dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
• 1186
  Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
• 1302
  Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician, is exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city.
• 1343
  Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
• 1593
  The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
• 1606
  Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
• 1695
  Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
• 1776
  American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1785
  The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• 1825
  The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
• 1868
  Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
• 1869
  Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• 1880
  Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

• 1888
  The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 1909
  The Young Left is founded in Norway.
• 1927
  Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
• 1939
  First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
• 1943
  World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
• 1944
  World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
• 1945
  World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
• 1951
  Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
• 1961
  Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
• 1967
  Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 1967
  The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
• 1973
  The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
• 1974
  The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
• 1980
  Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
• 1983
  The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.