1827 - What happened in 1827 ?

February 1827

Tuesday 27:

The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wednesday 28:

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

March 1827

Wednesday 07:

Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

Thursday 15:

The University of Toronto is chartered.

April 1827

Saturday 07:

John Walker (inventor), an English chemist, invents the friction match.

Wednesday 11:

The Greek national assembly at Troezene elected Capo d'Istria president of the republic.

Monday 23:

William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.

July 1827

Wednesday 04:

Slavery is abolished in New York State.

Saturday 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.

September 1827

Friday 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.

October 1827

Saturday 20:

a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.