SomeFacts | February 27

On this day - February 27

380 — Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors ...

425 — The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor ...

907 — Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the ...

1560 — The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of ...

1594 — Henry IV is crowned King of France.

1617 — Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ...

1626 — Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek ...

1782 — American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great ...

1801 — Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, ...

1809 — Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu ...

1812 — Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the ...

1812 — Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag ...

1844 — The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.

1859 — United States representative Daniel Sickles, after learning of ...

1860 — Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of ...

1864 — American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the ...

1870 — The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national ...

1881 — First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.

1898 — King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.

1900 — Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.

1900 — The British Labour Party is founded.

1900 — Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders ...

1902 — Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" ...

1916 — Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with ...

1921 — The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is ...

1922 — A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States ...

1932 — The Mäntsälä rebellion begins when members of the far-right ...

1933 — Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, ...

1939 — United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB ...

1940 — Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.

1942 — World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied ...

1942 — World War II: Operation Biting launches its overnight raid on ...

1943 — The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men ...

1943 — The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 ...

1951 — The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, ...

1961 — The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is ...

1962 — Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force ...

1963 — The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically ...

1964 — The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning ...

1971 — Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in ...

1973 — The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest ...

1976 — The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the ...

1988 — Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan ...

1991 — Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that ...

2001 — Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water ...

2002 — Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning ...

2002 — Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport ...

2004 — Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum ...

2004 — A bombing of a SuperFerry by Abu Sayyaf in the ...

2007 — Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange ...

2008 — Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a ...

2010 — An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale ...

2013 — A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, ...

2015 — Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow ...

2019 — Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan ...