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December 27 in history

173 sourced entries recorded on December 27, from 74 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 74Vespasian grants generous privileges to doctors and teachers.source
  • 537The construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (begun in 532) is completed.source
  • 1132Fountains Abbey soon to join the Cistercian order, is founded near Ripon in Yorkshire.source
  • 1244Innocent IV summons a general council to meet in Lyon (some 140 bishops eventually come) to attend what becomes later the First Council of Lyon.source
  • 1347To fund military operations in Corsica, the Republic of Genoa has to borrow at 20%, from an association of creditors known as the Compera nuova acquisitionis Corsicæ.source
  • 1388At Thăng Long, Tran Ngung overthrows and kills Tran Hien as Emperor of Dai Viet (now Vietnam).source
  • 1405The Imperial Chinese Army invades the Lan Na kingdom, covering an area now divided between Myanmar, Thailand and China's Yunnan province.source
  • 1483(27th day of 11th month of Bunmei 14) The Ashikaga shogunate and Koga kubo Ashikaga Shigeuji agree to the Tohiwaboku peace treaty, ending the Kyotoku War after almost 29 years. that had been ongoing since 1455.source
  • 1512The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.source
  • 1521The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and spreading the idea of rejecting infant baptism.source
  • 1539Anne of Cleves arrives in England in fulfillment of the October 4 contract for marriage to King Henry VIII and the payment of a dowry of 100,000 florins to her brother. Anne and Henry are married 10 days later, but the marriage is annulled on July 12.source
  • 1556Péter Erdődy is appointed as the Ottoman Viceroy of Croatia after the death on September 7 of Nikola IV Zrinski.source
  • 1574Murad III, eldest son of Selim II, is formally enthroned as the Ottoman Sultan after eliminating his other brothers as rival claimants to the throne.source
  • 1587Sigismund III Vasa is formally crowned as King Zygmunt Waza of Poland and Duke of Lithuania in a coronation ceremony at Kraków.source
  • 1591Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell leads the attack on the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. Having been alerted by a premature attack on the palace's prison, King James VI of Scotland and Queen Anne are able to take refuge within the castle, and the raid fails. Seven of Bothwell's men are subsequently captured and hanged.source
  • 1591Raid of Holyrood: The rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell breaks into Holyroodhouse.source
  • 1593Spanish Jesuit priest Gregorio Céspedes becomes the first Christian missionary to Korea, arriving at Busan to begin his ministry in the Buddhist kingdom of Joseon. Céspedes is able to enter Korea by coming with the Japanese invasion force of General Toyotomi Hideyoshi.source
  • 1594French university student Jean Châtel attempts to assassinate King Henry IV of France, after gaining entrance into the King's office. Châtel attacks the monarch with a knife and causes a minor injury. After court jester Mathurine de Vallois intervenes, she detains Châtel until the King's bodyguard can carry out the arrest. Two days later, Chatel is executed by dismemberment. The Collège de Clermont, the Jesuit institution, where Châtel was a student, is closed, and the order of the Jesuits is temporarily banned.source
  • 1601The Battle of Bantam is fought within what is now Indonesia off of the coast of the island of Java, as Walter Harmensz leads five Dutch Republic galleons in a successful attack against a Portuguese fleet led by André Furtado de Mendonça.source
  • 1613Mateo Leal de Ayala becomes the new Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, covering what will become the nations of Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. He succeeds Diego Marín de Negron, who was poisoned on July 26.source
  • 1627In Madrid, ministers of King Philip IV of Spain, draw up proposals for a "Kingdom and Republic of Ireland" that would break with England, to have two Captains General to be executives of the Republic.source
  • 1633Peace talks in The Hague abandoned.source
  • 1641According to a journalist who witnesses the events, John Rushworth, the term "roundhead" is first used to describe supporters of the English Parliament who have challenged the authority of the monarchy. Rushworth writes later that during a riot on the 27th, one of the rioters, David Hide, draws his sword and, describing the short haircuts of the anti-monarchists, says that he would "cut the throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops."source
  • 1655Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.source
  • 1657The Flushing Remonstrance is signed in New Amsterdam, at the site of the future (1862) Flushing Town Hall in New York City.source
  • 1663Jacob Hustaert becomes the new Governor of Dutch Ceylon.source
  • 1670Henry Morgan captures Fort San Lorenzo, on Panama's Caribbean coast.source
  • 1682Colonists from the German electorate of Brandenburg arrive at Akwidaa on the Brandenburger Gold Coast at what is now Ghana and, five days later, begin building a fort at what is now Princes Town.source
  • 1683Richard Keigwin leads a rebellion against the East India Company to take over as Governor of Bombay and most of the British territory in India, driving out Governor Sir John Child and arresting the Deputy Governor, Charles Ward. Keigwin surrenders the office less than a year later.source
  • 1693The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS Sussex departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, Sussex and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold.source
  • 1703Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty, which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England.source
  • 1703Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines over French wines into England, while Portugal will import woollen goods from England. This leads to the increasing popularity of Port wine in Britain.source
  • 1705John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre.source
  • 1712The premiere of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.source
  • 1712The première of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Parissource
  • 1730The Dutch East India Company ends an almost 11-year effort of trying to maintain a colony around Delagoa Bay in southern Africa in modern-day Mozambique. The entire population of the settlement, Fort Lydzammheid (near modern-day Maputo) is evacuated by the ships Snuffelaar, Zeepost and Feyenoord and the group returns to Cape Town.source
  • 1738After setting off from Rotterdam in August with 240 immigrants to America, the British ship Princess Augusta is wrecked near Block Island off of the coast of the colony of Rhode Island. During the voyage, 200 passengers and seven crew die from illness spread by contaminated water. Another 20 die after the crew leaves and rows to shore. The wreck later becomes the subject of the legend of the "Palatine Light" ghost ship and of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1867 poem "The Palatine".source
  • 1739February 1740 – the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter in which the River Liffey froze over, and citizens "walked and recreated themselves upon the ice".source
  • 1747The Parliament of Great Britain amends its Naturalisation Act 1740 to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.source
  • 1748Ernst Henrich Berling receives a license to publish newspapers.source
  • 1803Convict William Buckley escapes from Sullivan Bay, Victoria. He lives with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years.source
  • 1810Chartered British East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives, many of them lascar seamen.source
  • 1810Chartered East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives.source
  • 18133 January 1814 – A thick fog blankets London causing the Prince Regent to turn back from a trip to Hatfield House and a mail coach to take 7 hours to reach Uxbridge on its way to Birmingham.source
  • 1822The Snapper is the first deep-sea vessel to enter what will become the port at Bluff. (see also 1813)source
  • 1827Arson is suspected in a building fire in Huntsville, Alabama that destroyed public land records at the surveyor general's office.source
  • 1831The Baptist War (Christmas Rebellion) begins in Jamaica, with the setting afire of the Kensington House in St James Parish, inspiring thousands of black slaves to revolt against their British masters. At its peak, more than 20,000 people will be involved, and more than 500 killed.source
  • 1831Charles Darwin embarks from Plymouth on the second voyage of HMS Beagle which will be the foundation for his life of scientific study.source
  • 1831Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle from Plymouth.source
  • 1834A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks and 15 people drown.source
  • 1836Lewes avalanche: An avalanche at Lewes in Sussex, England, kills eight of fifteen people buried, when a row of cottages is engulfed in snow.source
  • 1836Lewes avalanche in East Sussex kills eight.source
  • 1841Franz Liszt gives a piano recital at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to an enthusiastic audience, retrospectively marked as the beginning of Lisztomania, which will accompany his tours across Europe during the decade.source
  • 1845American newspaper editor John L. O'Sullivan claims (in connection with the annexation of the Oregon Country) in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review that the United States should be allowed "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions". It is the second time he uses the term manifest destiny (first in connection with the Republic of Texas in July – August), and it will have a huge influence on American imperialism in the following century.source
  • 1845Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time, by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.source
  • 1845Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia).source
  • 1848Marcus Thrane founded Drammens arbeiderforening (Drammen Labour Union).source
  • 1850The Cressy is the last of the First Four Ships to arrive at Lyttelton.source
  • 1851December 26–27 – A British Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos Island; Oba Kosoko is wounded, and flees to Epe.source
  • 1862December 26–29 – Battle of Chickasaw Bayou – Another victory for the Confederate Army, outnumbered two to one, results in six times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults commanded by Union general William T. Sherman.source
  • 1862The Swedish brig Daphne is wrecked off Skagen North Beach. A rescue boat from Skagen with 11 men capsizes and only two of the men survives, leaving eight women in Skagen as widows and 25 children fatherless.source
  • 1873Third Carlist War: Siege of Bilbao (until 2 May 1874) – Campaigning in Navarre, Pretender Don Carlos VII and General Joaquín Elío besiege Bilbao, held by General Ignacio del Castillo and 1,200 men. The Carlist force is ten times this number, and includes most of the troops from Navarre, Vizcaya and Álava, although a considerable force is left in Guipúzcoa. Despite defeat at nearby Somorrostro, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano, supported by Generals Manuel de la Concha and Arsenio Martínez-Campos, brilliantly breaks the siege, and Concha then marches on Estella.source
  • 1873Formal opening of the Bourse Palace.source
  • 1881December 25–27 – The Warsaw pogrom is carried out in Vistula Land, Russian Empire.source
  • 1890The British steamship Shanghai burns in the East China Sea off the coast of Anhui Province; 101 lives are lost.source
  • 1900Emily Hobhouse arrives in Cape Town.source
  • 1904The Abbey Theatre in Dublin opens.source
  • 1904The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.source
  • 1906Transvaal – Pretoria North to Rustenburg, 60 mi 34 ch.source
  • 1908Italian newsstands saw the first issue of Il Corriere dei Piccoli, the first mainstream publication primarily dedicated to comics. The first issue introduced readers to the adventures of Bilbolbul, a little black kid drawn by Attilio Mussino that is considered the first Italian comic character.source
  • 1917The steamship Adela is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Skerries, Anglesey, resulting in the deaths of 24 crew.source
  • 1918Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19): Poles in Greater Poland (the former Grand Duchy of Posen) rise up against the Germans, ignited by a patriotic speech made in Poznań by pianist and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski.source
  • 1922Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.source
  • 1923Toranomon Incident: In Tokyo, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan survives an assassination attempt by communist student Daisuke Nanba.source
  • 1923Establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of Tingchowsource
  • 1924A dynamite explosion during logistic handling work in Temiya Station, Otaru, Hokkaido, resulting to death toll was 94 persons, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.source
  • 1929Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".source
  • 1932The Radio City Music Hall is opened in New York City.source
  • 1934Persia becomes Iran.source
  • 1935In China, Mao Zedong issues the Wayaobu Manifesto, On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against the Japanese invasion.source
  • 1935In Germany, Regina Jonas becomes the first woman ever to receive semikhah (ordination) as a rabbi within Judaism. She will be killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and the next such ordination will be in 1972.source
  • 1938A massive avalanche of snow hits a construction worker dormitory site in Kurobe, Japan, killing 87 people.source
  • 19381938 Unazuki avalanche, 84 persons were fatalities in Toyama Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.source
  • 1939Olav Jordet, biathlete, Olympic silver medallist and World Championsource
  • 1939The 7.8 Mw Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme), causing $20 million in damage, and leaving 32,700–32,968 dead.source
  • 1940John McQuaid was consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he held for more than thirty years.source
  • 1942The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia, a communist youth movement, is founded.source
  • 1945A misreport regarding the results of the Moscow conference of 1945 happens causing mass confusion among the issue of trusteeship.source
  • 1947A Douglas C-48C (VT-AUG) of Air India crashed into Korangi Creek en route from Karachi to Bombay, killing all 23 onboard (4 crew and 19 passengers). The crash was found to have been the result of poor visibility during night hours and the instrument lights not working, with serious fault assigned to the captain. The crash was Pakistan's first deadly airliner crash.source
  • 1949The Treaty of The Hague ends the Indonesian National Revolution by recognizing transfer of the sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies from Queen Juliana of the Netherlands to the United States of Indonesia; the Susanto Cabinet takes office in the Republic of Indonesia.source
  • 1949Establishment of the Netherlands-Indonesian Unionsource
  • 1963Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal Shrinesource
  • 1969The Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time.source
  • 1970President of India V. V. Giri declares new elections.source
  • 1978The Constitution of Spain is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship.source
  • 1983Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.source
  • 1985American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.source
  • 1985Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.source
  • 1986Corazon Aquino is named as Time magazine's woman of the year.source
  • 1993December 26–28 – Four separate grenade attacks occur in Davao City. The first one, during an evening mass at San Pedro Cathedral, kills 6–7 people and injures more than 130 others. In the following two days, three mosques are likewise attacked, injuring six in the second one.source
  • 1996Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Air Base, solidifying their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.source
  • 1999A day after Cyclone Lothar, Cyclone Martin causes additional damage throughout France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, including an emergency due to flooding at the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant.source
  • 2001China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.source
  • 2001Tropical Storm Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.source
  • 2001Tropical Storm Vamei hits Singapore.source
  • 20022002 Kenyan general election: Kenya holds its first free elections, ousting the dominant Kenya African National Union Party following a victory of the National Rainbow Coalition.source
  • 20022002 Grozny truck bombing: Chechen suicide bombers attack the government headquarters in Grozny, Russia, killing over 70 people.source
  • 2007Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the general election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.source
  • 2008Israel invades the Gaza Strip, in response to rockets being fired into Israeli territory by Hamas, and due to weapons being smuggled into the area.source
  • 2018Appointment of the controversial judge Levan Murusidze to the Court of Appeals for lifetime tenure stirs up criticism and concerns over his independence voiced by two non-judge members of the High Council of Justice and civil society groups.source
  • 2019Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.source
  • 202027 December 2019 – 5 September 2020: 2019–20 Djibouti Premier Leaguesource
  • 2024Acting President of South Korea Han Duck-soo is impeached by MPs for failing to promulgate two bills related to president Yoon's legal proceedings. He is succeeded by deputy prime minister Choi Sang-mok.source

Births

  • 1350John I of Aragon (died 1396)source
  • 1390Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (died 1411)source
  • 1459King John I Albert of Poland (died 1501)source
  • 1481Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth (died 1527)source
  • 1555Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (died 1621)source
  • 1566Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (died 1621)source
  • 1571Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (died 1630)source
  • 1584Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania (died 1625)source
  • 1594Ove Gjedde, Danish admiral, member of the interim government after the death of Christian IV (died 1660)source
  • 1595Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (died 1657)source
  • 1683Conyers Middleton, English clergyman (died 1750)source
  • 1717Pope Pius VI, born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (died 1799)source
  • 1727Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (died 1805)source
  • 1761Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (died 1818)source
  • 1771William Johnson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1834)source
  • 1773Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer (died 1857)source
  • 1796Mirza Ghalib, Persian poet of Urdu (died 1869)source
  • 1797Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan (Mirza Ghalib), Indian poet (d.1868)source
  • 1822Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist, chemist (died 1895)source
  • 1858Juan Luis Sanfuentes (died 1930)source
  • 1898Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (died 1960)source
  • 1898Inejiro Asanuma, politician, leader of the Japan Socialist Party (died 1960)source
  • 1986Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican sprintersource
  • 1995Timothée Chalamet, French-American actorsource
  • 2011Jocelyn Nungaray, murder victim (died 2024)source

Deaths

  • 232Cao Zhi, Chinese prince and poet (born 192)source
  • 278Yang Hu (or Shuzi), Chinese general and politician (born 221)source
  • 683Gao Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (born 628)source
  • 683Emperor Gaozong dies at Luoyang, age 55, after a 34-year reign in which he expanded the Chinese Empire by acquiring Korea as a vassal state.source
  • 870Aeneas of Paris, Frankish bishopsource
  • 975Balderic, bishop of Utrecht (born 897)source
  • 1003Emma of Blois, duchess of Aquitainesource
  • 1005Nilus the Younger, Byzantine abbot (born 910)source
  • 1077Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1027)source
  • 1087Bertha of Savoy, Holy Roman Empress (born 1051)source
  • 1171Petrus Ua Mórda, bishop of Clonfertsource
  • 1381Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politiciansource
  • 1428In the Battle of Stary Wielisław (now in Poland), the Hussites are defeated in an attack by the Bohemian forces led by the Silesian Duke John I of Münsterberg (who is killed in the fighting) and Půta III of Častolovice, Governor of Klodzko Land.source
  • 1518Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (born c. 1470)source
  • 1543George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1484)source
  • 1557Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (born 1487)source
  • 1562Joachim of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg, Duke of Oels, Count of Kladsko, Bishop of Brandenburg (born 1503)source
  • 1573James Stanihurst, politiciansource
  • 1585Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)source
  • 1636Iskandar Muda, Sultan of Aceh (born 1583)source
  • 1642Herman op den Graeff, Dutch bishop (born 1585)source
  • 1656Andrew White, Apostle of Maryland (born 1579)source
  • 1663Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (born 1606)source
  • 1694Henrik Span, naval officer and shipbioæder (born 1634)source
  • 1743Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (born 1659)source
  • 1763Princess Isabella of Parma (b.1741)source
  • 1800Hugh Blair, Scottish Presbyterian preacher, man of letters (born 1718)source
  • 1804George Barrington (born 1755), convict and police officersource
  • 1834Charles Lamb, English essayist (born 1775)source
  • 1836Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (born 1793)source
  • 1928Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician and left-wing activist (died 2014).source
  • 1972Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1897)source
  • 1997Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated inside Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland.source
  • 2007Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated.source
  • 2007Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election rally in Rawalpindi.source