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October 27 in history

203 sourced entries recorded on October 27, from 921 CE to 2019 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1230Henry III signs a truce with King Louis IX of France ("the Saint") and returns to Portsmouth. He leaves a small force under Peter I and Ranulf de Blondeville, to act against the French in Brittany and Normandy.source
  • 1275Floris V, count of Holland, grants the city of Amsterdam freedom from taxes (called a road toll).source
  • 1303The coronation of Cardinal Boccasini as Pope Benedict XI, 194th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, is performed at St. Peter's Basilica by Cardinal Matteo Rosso Orsini.source
  • 1326Declaring that they are acting in the name of King Edward and giving as the reason that he is away in France, Queen Isabella and Crown Prince Edward issue a writ summoning the English Parliament to assemble on December 14 at Westminster.source
  • 1326The day after his capture at Bristol, Hugh Despenser the Elder, the chief adviser to King Edward II of England, is dressed in his armor and hanged in public. Afterwards, Hugh's body is dismembered, with his head presented to Queen Isabella to show to others among Edward's allies.source
  • 1327Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen consort of Scotland as the wife of King Robert the Bruce, is fatally injured when she falls from her horse while traveling with her entourage to Cullen Castle in Banffshire.source
  • 1406In gratitude to the King of Korea, Chinese merchant Chen Yanxiang trades his ship to Korea for a smaller vessel, then departs Korea, but runs into a storm while approaching Japan's Seto Inland Sea.source
  • 1491King Charles VIII of France convenes the Estates of Brittany in Vannes, to counsel Anne of Brittany of France's conditions for keeping her as Duchess, including the occupation of the Duchy of Brittany by the French army, the appointment of the Viscount Jean de Rohan to be appointed as governor-general of Brittany on behalf of the King of France, the renunciation of Anne's proxy marriage to the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, and the future marriage of Anne to the French King.source
  • 1523Hürrem Pasha, the Ottoman Empire's Governor-General of the Damascus Eyalet (which includes parts of what will become Syria, Israel, Jordan and Palestine) begins a punitive expedition through Lebanon against the Druze of Chouf. During the first campaign, Hürrem's troops burn 43 villages and kill at least 400 Druze.source
  • 1553Geneva's governing council burns Michael Servetus at the stake as a heretic.source
  • 1557October 24 – October 28: the Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against Shane O'Neill, burning Armagh on 27 October.source
  • 1559Frederick III is terminated from his post as Duke of Legnica on orders of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. The Emperor Ferdinand orders Frederick placed under house arrest, and restores Frederick's son, Henry XI as Duke of Legnica.source
  • 1601The 10th Parliament of Elizabeth I is opened by Queen Elizabeth I of England. It serves until December 19.source
  • 1607Halley's Comet is seen by Johannes Kepler.source
  • 1612Forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had been occupying Moscow for more than two years, surrender unconditionally to Russian militia forces and are allowed to leave after the Kremlin is liberated by Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Prince Kuzma Minin.source
  • 1614The French Estates General begins its last session. The session, with 464 deputies representing the nobility, the lower and middle classes, and the clergy, closes on February 23, 1615. For the next 175 years, the Kingdom of France will be governed as an absolute monarchy until the calling of a new Estates General in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution.source
  • 1615In Russia, the siege of Pskov ends with the withdrawal of Swedish Army troops. The siege is the last battle of the Ingrian War.source
  • 1622Huguenot rebellions: The inconclusive Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré is fought between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle, commanded by Jean Guiton, and a royal fleet under the command of Charles of Guise.source
  • 1651siege of Limerick: Hugh Dubh O'Neill surrenders Limerick after part of the English Royalist garrison mutinies. The soldiers are permitted to march unarmed to Galway but some leaders are executed.source
  • 1662Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France, for £400,000 (2.5 million French livres).source
  • 1662Charles II sells Dunkirk to France for £400 000 (2.5 million livres).source
  • 1662Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000 (or 2.5 million livres).source
  • 1674The town of Grave surrenders to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.source
  • 1681Sir John Child of England becomes the new Governor of Bombay province and, unofficially, Governor-General of all of the settlements of the East India Company in India. With the exception of a rebellion by Captain Richard Keigwin during the year 1684, Child expands British control until involving the British in a war with the Mughal Empire.source
  • 1682The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.source
  • 1688James II dismisses government minister Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland.source
  • 1697a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.source
  • 1702Queen Anne's War in North America: English troops plunder St. Augustine, Spanish Florida.source
  • 1726Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.source
  • 1726J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of the few works he calls a cantata.source
  • 1751The Hōreki period begins in Japan.source
  • 1758the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber (the English actor, bound for a season at the Smock Alley Theatre), and (probably) the mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.source
  • 1787Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff arrives as minister plenipotentiary.source
  • 1787The first of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, is published in The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper.source
  • 1787The first of The Federalist papers, a series of essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, is published in a New York paper.source
  • 1789Battle of Turnhout: The Austrian army is beaten by Brabant revolutionaries.source
  • 1795The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.source
  • 1806The Barony of Gaunø was established by Otto Reedtz-Thott (1785-1862) from the manors of Gavnø, Lindersvold and Strandegård.source
  • 1810The United States annexes the Republic of West Florida.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1828Gold is discovered by Benjamin Parks in or near Cherokee First Nation land in Hall County - later reorganized into Lumpkin County - in, Georgia.source
  • 1830Belgian forces take Antwerp; Dutch forces bombard the city from Antwerp Citadel.source
  • 1834Battle of Alegría de Álavasource
  • 1838Lilburn Boggs, Governor of Missouri, by Missouri Executive Order 44, declares Mormons to be enemies of the state, and encourages the extermination or exile of the religious minority, forcing nearly 10,000 Mormons out of the state. It was later rescinded in 1976.source
  • 1838Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs issues Missouri Executive Order 44 (the "Extermination Order"), ordering the expulsion of all Mormons from the state. This winter, Mormons fleeing this persecution are welcomed in Quincy, Illinois.source
  • 1854A Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. At least 52 people are killed.source
  • 1856The two halves of the Grand Trunk Railway are joined with the construction of the Oshawa–Brockville section of the original mainline. Celebratory trains meet near the centre of the line at Kingston. The western terminus of the mainline is the east bank of the Don River.source
  • 1857October 24 – 28 enslaved people escape their enslavers in Maryland.source
  • 1863October 26–29 – The Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference are signed by sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agreeing to form the International Red Cross.source
  • 1863October 26–29 – The Grand Duchy of Baden, Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Hanover, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Saxony are among the signatories to the Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference leading to formation of the International Red Cross and the German Red Cross.source
  • 1867Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into the Papal States.source
  • 1870Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Metz – Marshal François Achille Bazaine, commanding the French left wing, is forced by starvation to surrender the fortifications of Metz.source
  • 1871British forces march into the Klipdrift Republic and annex the territory as Griqualand West Colony.source
  • 1871Henri, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned "King Henry V of France" until France abandons its tricolor, and returns to the old Bourbon flag.source
  • 1871Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall is arrested for bribery, ending his grip on New York City.source
  • 1876November 24 - Akizuki Rebellionsource
  • 1878The Manhattan Savings Institution robbery occurs.source
  • 1891The Nicotera Regulation, by interior minister Giovanni Nicotera, made prostitution in Italy fully legal in private houses, with strict regulations. A system of sifilicomi (hospitals for sex workers) was also set up, under the belief that they were the main sources of spreading venereal diseases. Although prostitutes found this regulated system oppressive, they developed ways to resist it.source
  • 1893The National Council of Women of Canada meets for the first time.source
  • 1897St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne is consecratedsource
  • 1897Deportes Magallanes football club is founded.source
  • 1899Louise Masset, an unmarried mother, murders her 3-year old son in a bathroom at the Dalston Junction railway station in London. She will be found guilty on 18 December and hanged at Newgate Prison three weeks later.source
  • 1900Notorious murderer Jimmy Governor is apprehended near Wingham, New South Wales.source
  • 1904The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.source
  • 1907Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).source
  • 1912The Italian rider Carlo Oriani wins the 8th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.source
  • 1913A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.source
  • 1914The Greek army occupies Northern Epirus with the approval of the Allies.source
  • 1914British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.source
  • 1915William Morris "Billy" Hughes becomes the 7th prime minister of Australia.source
  • 1915World War I: Glasgow revolutionary socialist anti-war protester John Maclean is arrested for the first time under the Defence of the Realm Act and dismissed from his job as a teacher.source
  • 1916Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu.source
  • 1917WWI: Battle of Buqqar Ridge – Ottoman forces attack British Desert Mounted Corps units garrisoning El-Buqqar Ridge, during the last days of the Stalemate in Southern Palestine.source
  • 1920The League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland.source
  • 1922Southern Rhodesians reject union with South Africa in a referendum.source
  • 1923In Germany, General Hans von Seeckt orders the Reichswehr to dissolve the Social Democratic-Communist government of Saxony, which is refusing to accept the authority of the Reich government.source
  • 1924The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.source
  • 1924instead of Turkestan ASSR, Bukharan SSR, and Khorezm SSR were formed Uzbek SSR (centered in Bukhara) and Turkmen SSR (Poltoratsk – Ashgabat)source
  • 1925October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 1929October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).source
  • 1930Ratifications are exchanged in London on the first London Naval Treaty signed in April, modifying the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Its arms limitation provisions go into effect immediately, hence putting more limits on the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Empire of Japan, France and Italy.)source
  • 1930Start of Musha Incident.source
  • 1931The United Kingdom general election results in the victory of the National Government, and the defeat of Labour Party, in the country's greatest ever electoral landslide.source
  • 19311931 United Kingdom general election: The Unionist Party wins a majority of Scottish seats as the National Government retains power with a landslide victory throughout the UK.source
  • 1931general election results in victory for the National Government in the country's greatest ever electoral landslide. Ramsay MacDonald remains Prime Minister. This election is held on a Tuesday: all subsequent ones will be held on Thursdays.source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1937Harald Pettersen, businessperson and politician (born 1869)source
  • 1938Jan Martin Larsen, cartographer, orienteer and politiciansource
  • 1938DuPont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon".source
  • 1940October 26–28 – WWII: RMS Empress of Britain, serving as a troopship under the British flag, is bombed, torpedoed and sunk off the Donegal coast, with the loss of 45 lives. At 42,348 GRT, she is the war's largest merchant ship loss.source
  • 1945November 20 – Indonesian National Revolution: Battle of Surabaya – Pro-independence Indonesian soldiers and militia fight British and British Indian troops in Surabaya.source
  • 1949Battle of Kuningtou: Chinese communist troops fail to take Quemoy; their advance towards Taiwan is halted.source
  • 19491949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash: An Air France flight from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores on São Miguel Island, killing all aboard. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu, and French boxer Marcel Cerdan.source
  • 1951King Farouk I of Egypt declares himself king of the Sudan, with no international recognition or support.source
  • 1954Singapore Polytechnic was founded as the first polytechnic in Singapore.source
  • 1955The film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, is released in the United States.source
  • 1957Celâl Bayar is re-elected president of Turkey.source
  • 1957According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency has official report, An apartment house caught fire by arsonist relative insurance fraud in Akishima, Tokyo, kills eight persons, injures six persons, Japan National Police Agency official report, a suspicion was arrested on March 8, 1958.source
  • 1958Ayub and his Cabinet takes oaths. In a dramatic turn of events late night, President Iskander Mirza resigned, giving over his office to Gen Ayub Khan, who had taken oath as Prime Minister just this morning. Ayub now becomes the country's 2nd President, though without a constitution. He remained Prime Minister for around 13 hours only, thus becoming the shortest-serving Premier in the history of the country so far. The press release declares it a voluntary transfer of power but, behind the curtains, the transfer letter had actually been wrung from the ambitious Mirza on gun point, by the 3 military members of Ayub's cabinet. General Ayub Khan, who was nominated Prime Minister by President Mirza on 24th, has taken the oath today. He has also announced his cabinet: three military officials including Lt General Azam Khan, and eight civilians including Md. Hafizur Rahman, A. K. Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.source
  • 1958Joseph Klausner (born 1874), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli Jewish historian and professor of Hebrew Literature.source
  • 1961Berlin Crisis: Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie – A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany, heightens Cold War tensions.source
  • 1961An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo.source
  • 1962October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.source
  • 1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Vasily Arkhipov, executive officer of Soviet submarine B-59, refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded as crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.source
  • 1965Brazilian president Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco removes power from parliament, legal courts and opposition parties.source
  • 1966Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.source
  • 1967French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community for the second time in the decade.source
  • 1977British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release.source
  • 1978Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.source
  • 1978Typhoon Rita pummels Manila with winds up to 94 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour). At least 20 are killed and 70,000 left homeless in the floods that resulted.source
  • 1980The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.source
  • 1980Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison in Northern Ireland refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December.source
  • 1981Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground outside the Karlskrona, Sweden, military base, leading to a minor international incident.source
  • 1982In Canada, the July 1 holiday, Dominion Day, is officially renamed Canada Day.source
  • 1982The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 comes into effect, decriminalising homosexuality in Northern Ireland for those aged 18 or older.source
  • 1986The New York Mets win 4 games to 3 in the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox.source
  • 1990The first episode of Pole Chudes is presentedsource
  • 1993October 27–31 – The Southland Firestorm, formed of more than fourteen separate fires in Southern California burning simultaneously, burns more than 700 homes and 160,000 acres. Two of these fire are the Laguna Fire which burned more than 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares), destroyed hundreds of homes and caused $528 million in damage in Orange County, California, and the Kinneloa Fire in Los Angeles County, California which caused a fatality.source
  • 1995Former President Roh Tae-woo made a public apology about secret funds scandal.source
  • 1999Armenian parliament shooting: Gunmen open fire in Armenia's National Assembly building, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.source
  • 20022002 Brazilian general election: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil.source
  • 2003The establishment of Cathay United Bank after the merging of United World Chinese Commercial Bank and Cathay Commercial Bank.source
  • 2003Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky is arrested. Critics allege that this is a political action by the government to control Russian oligarchs.source
  • 2005The police arrests 4 persons suspected to be part of an Islamic extremist terrorist cell planning suicide attacks. The arrests are reported to be connected to other arrests made in Bosnia; weapons and explosives have been found in Sarajevo . The following day two more Danes were arrested in Denmark .source
  • 2011After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announces an agreement to deal with the Euro area crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.source
  • 2012October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.source
  • 2014An outbreak of cholera kills 51.source
  • 2017Based on the results of a previously held referendum, Catalonia declares independence from Spain, but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.source
  • 2019U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in a U.S. special forces operation. It is reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.source

Births

  • 921Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou (died 959)source
  • 1156Raymond VI, French nobleman (died 1222)source
  • 1178Zhen Dexiu, Chinese politician (died 1235)source
  • 1335Yi Seong-gye, Korean founder of the Joseon Dynastysource
  • 1401Catherine of Valois, queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422 (died 1437)source
  • 1401Catherine of Valois, Queen of England (died 1437)source
  • 1561Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (died 1621)source
  • 1572Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (died 1578)source
  • 1572Marie Elisabeth of France, Princess of the House of Valois (died 1578)source
  • 1594Johann Rudolf Wettstein, Swiss diplomat (died 1666)source
  • 1672Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, Swedish writer (died 1737)source
  • 1672Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, writer (died 1737)source
  • 1691Jacob Severin, merchant (died 1753)source
  • 1728James Cook, British naval commander and explorer (died 1779)source
  • 172827 October (O.S.) – James Cook, naval captain and explorer (died 1779)source
  • 1736James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)source
  • 1753Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, French general (died 1794)source
  • 1760August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (died 1831)source
  • 1761Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist (died 1823)source
  • 1761Geir Vídalín, prelatesource
  • 1782Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)source
  • 1795Agnes Magnúsdóttir, criminal (Murder of Nathan Ketilsson)source
  • 1842Giovanni Giolitti, 5-time prime minister of Italy (died 1928)source
  • 1858Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1919)source
  • 1914Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (died 1953)source
  • 1920Ts'ao Yung-ho, Taiwanese historiansource
  • 1932Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (died 1963)source
  • 1941Rodolfo Hinostroza, poet and astrologer.source
  • 1945Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazilsource

Deaths

  • 939King Æthelstan dies at Gloucester after a 15-year reign. He is buried at Malmesbury Abbey and succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I ("the Magnificent"). After Æthelstan's death Olaf Guthfrithson (or his cousin, Anlaf Cuaran) a Viking leader who rules Dublin, is proclaimed king of York (south of Northumbria).source
  • 939Æthelstan, king of Englandsource
  • 1052Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emirsource
  • 1261Sancho of Castile, Spanish archbishop (born 1233)source
  • 1269Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, German nobleman and knight (born 1220)source
  • 1272Hugh IV of Burgundy, French nobleman (born 1213)source
  • 1277Walter de Merton, bishop of Rochestersource
  • 1282Roger Mortimer, English nobleman (born 1231)source
  • 1303Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (born 1242)source
  • 1312John II, Duke of Brabant, Dutch nobleman and knight (born 1275)source
  • 1312Gentile Portino da Montefiore, Italian cardinal-priest (born 1240)source
  • 1320Magnus Birgersson, who had been the crown prince of Sweden until his father, King Birger was forced to flee, is beheaded by order of King Magnus Eriksson. Magnus had defended the Stegeborg Castle in 1318 to allow his father to flee to safety. When the castle surrendered, it was under the condition that Magnus would not be harmed.source
  • 1326Hugh Despenser the Elder, English chief adviser (born 1261)source
  • 1327Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Brucesource
  • 1327Elizabeth de Burgh, the second wife and the only queen consort of King Robert the Bruce.source
  • 1329Mahaut, Countess of Artois (born 1268)source
  • 1331Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (born 1273)source
  • 1374King Gongmin of Goryeo is assassinated by several men who invade the royal palace at Songdo, enter the King's private chamber and hack him to death with swords. King Gongmin is succeeded by U of Goryeo as ruler of Goryeo (now part of South Korea).source
  • 1374King Gongmin of Goryeo (born 1330)source
  • 1430Vytautas, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)source
  • 1430Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies shortly after the cancellation of plans to crown him as King of Lithuania. His cousin Švitrigaila is elected unanimously by the Lithuanian nobles as the new Grand Duke, violating an agreement with the Kingdom of Poland that the Polish nobles would be able to participate in the election.source
  • 1438At Mandore (part of the modern-day state of Rajasthan in India), Rao Ranmal, King of Marwar is assassinated after becoming drunk during the festival of Diwali, when one of his wives, Bharmali, ties him up and opens his bedroom door to admit a team of assassins. Ranmal's son, Rao Jodha, becomes the new King.source
  • 1439Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1397)source
  • 1441Margery Jourdemayne, Englishwoman executed for treasonable witchcraftsource
  • 1449Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (born 1394)source
  • 1485Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar (born 1443)source
  • 1505Emperor Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)source
  • 1513George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English noblemansource
  • 1527Johann Froben, Swiss printer and publisher (born c. 1460)source
  • 1548Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (born 1485)source
  • 1553Michael Servetus, Spanish Protestant theologian (burned at the stake) (born 1511)source
  • 1561Lope de Aguirre, Basque rebel and conquistador (born 1510)source
  • 1580Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, knight (born 1545)source
  • 1605Akbar The Great, Mughal emperor (born 1542)source
  • 1605The 3rd Mughal Emperor, Akbar "the Great", dies of dysentery at Fatehpur Sikri in India.source
  • 1613Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (born 1589)source
  • 1642Holger Rosenkrantz, nobleman (born 1574)source
  • 1666Robert Hubert, a Frenchman who has made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London (despite not arriving in England until two days after the blaze started), is executed based on his statements.source
  • 1666Robert Hubert, a Frenchman who had made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London, is executed. A royal proclamation banishes Catholic priests.source
  • 1706Arsenije III Crnojević, Serbian archbishop (born 1633)source
  • 1895October 27/28 – Adele Spitzeder, German actress, folk singer and confidence trickster (born 1832)source
  • 1968Lise Meitner, German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (born 1878)source
  • 1999Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Ministersource
  • 2013Lou Reed, 71, American rock musician (The Velvet Underground) and songwriter ("Walk on the Wild Side"), liver disease.source
  • 2018Eleven people are killed during the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.source