1827

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 - 1827 - 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832

---

Events

• Nicéphore Nièpce makes the first true photograph
• February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo[?]
• February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
• April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
• May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
• July 6 - Treaty of London[?] between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
• 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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1827 in literature:

Births

• April 5- Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic
• May 19 - Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (+ 1896)
• June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (+ 1901)
• George M. Harding[?], architect

Deaths

• March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 56, German composer
• August 8 - George Canning, aged 57, British statesman and Prime Minister
• August 12 - William Blake, poet

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

827  127  187  182  8127  1287  1872  182  11827  18827  18227  18277  ~827  q827  2827  q827  1727  1u27  1i27  1927  1i27  1817  18q7  18w7  1837  18w7  1826  182y  182u  1828  182u  1827s 


No thrall's hands made the tenters bare. "King's daughters' hands have done the deed, Tell me that Knut my son is dead!" She said: "The doom on thee, O King! The death of men within his eyes. Men looked to see his bitter sword His hand fell down along his side. No red there came into his cheek, And in the noon of day he died. So lieth King Gorm beneath the grass, So fair upriseth the rim of the sun. So grey is the sea when day is done. ON THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS. Puellae. Whence comest thou, and whither goest thou? What hopest thou the dark to thee will show? Abide! abide! for we are happy here. Amans. Why should I name the land across the sea Why should I name the land that flees from me? Let me depart, since ye are happy here. Puellae. What wilt thou do within the desert place Stay but a while to tell us of thy case. Abide! abide! for we are happy here. Amans. What, nigh the journey's end shall I abide, When from all men for me she still doth hide? Let me depart, since ye are happy here. Puellae. Nay, nay; but rather she forgetteth thee, Or in green gardens where sweet fountains be. Abide! abide! for we are happy here. Amans. Will ye then keep me from the wilderness, .