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Events on Mar 27

1513Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant General of Ireland
1625Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne
1668English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713Spain losses Menorca and Gibraltar
1721France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1790The shoelace invented
1794US Navy forms
1802Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1814Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
18361st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
18411st US steam fire engine tested, New York City
1848John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1861Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1863President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer
1865Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
18711st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
18841st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
19121st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC
19141st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1920Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed
1924Canada recognizes USSR

Born on Mar 27

1416Antonio Squarcialupi: Composer
1554Everhardus van Bronchorst: Dutch lawyer
1665Benjamin Neukirch: German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1702Johann Ernst Eberlin: Composer
1746Augustin Ullinger: Composer
1746Carlo Bonaparte: Corsican attorney / father of Emperor Napoleon
1757Richard John Samuel Stevens: Composer
1760Ishmail Spicer: Composer
1760MJ Auguste Vestrius: French ballet dancers
1765Franz Xaver von Baader: German philosopher / theologist
1772Giovanni Liverati: Composer
1780August L Crelle: German inventor / mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785Louis XVII Charles: King of France (1793-95)
1809Georges Eugene Haussmann: Paris, France -- Architect
1810A Glabbrenner: Writer
1813Nathaniel Currier: Lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816George Elvey: Composer
1818Jakob Axel Josephson: Composer
1823Samuel Kosciusko Zook: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844Alophus Washington Greely: United States -- Arctic explorer
1847Otto Wallach: Germany -- Chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851Ruperto Chapi y Lorente: Composer
1857Karl Pearson: London, England -- Mathematician
1857Pearson: Mathematician
1858Peter Christian Lutkin: Composer
1867Edyth Walker: US singer
1871Heinrich Mann: Germany -- Novelist / essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871Petrus J M Aalberse: Dutch Minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879Edward Steichen: Pioneered American photography
1883Jan Kunc: Composer

Died on Mar 27

0922Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur: Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
0965Arnulf I [the Elder / the Great]: Count of Flanders (918-65)
1378Gregory XI [Pierre R the Beaufort]: Last French Pope (1370-78)
1472Janus Pannonius: Hungarian Poet / translator, dies at 37
1482Maria: Duchess of Burgundy / Countess of Holland, dies at 25
1625James I Stuart: King of Scotland (1567) / England (1603-25), dies at 58
1668Clemens Thieme: Composer, dies at 36
1679Abraham Mignon: Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
1701Anne Hilarion de Cotentin: Count of Tourville / Fr Admiral, dies at 58
1714Anton Ulrich: German Duke of Brunswick / poet, dies at 80
1761Johann Ludwig Steiner: Composer, dies at 72
1769Josef Antonin Gurecky: Composer, dies at 60
1770Giovanni B Tiepolo: Italian Painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
1809Joseph M Vien: French (court)painter / etcher, dies at 92
1826Jakob Haibel: Composer, dies at 63
1850Wilhelm Bear: German banker / astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1878Dobri Voynikov: Composer, dies at 44
1878George Gilbert Scott: Architect
1889Moritz Furstenau: Composer, dies at 64
1894Verney L Cameron: English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
1898Sajjid Ahmad Chan: Co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
1900Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet]: South African General, dies at 69
1910Alexander E Agassiz: US businessman / biologist / geologist, dies at 74
1910David Duffle Wood: Composer, dies at 72
1920Johan G Danser: Dutch Poet (Meetings), dies at 26
1922Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov: Composer, dies at 63
1924Walter Parratt: Composer, dies at 83
1925Carl G Neumann: German Mathematician / physicist, dies at 92
1928Leslie Stuart: Composer, dies at 64
1929Shatunovsky: Mathematician

Historical events on March 28

1535Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked and destroyed
1556Origin of Fasli Era (India)
1774Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1794Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1796Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
1797Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1799New York State abolished slavery
1804Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1834Senate censure President Jackson for taking Federal deposits from Bank of US
1845Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1849Dutch Princess Marianne and Prince Albert of Prussia separate
1854During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia
1862Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
18661st ambulance goes into service
1871San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
1881Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum and James A Bailey
1885US Salvation Army officially organized
18911st world weightlifting championship held
1896The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
190227.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)
1905Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
19101st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1917Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1920Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1920Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia
19221st microfilm device introduced
1922Stanley Cup: Toronto St. Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1924WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1927Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St, New York City
1929Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

Born on March 28

1468Charles I: Duke of Savoy
1472Fra Bartolomeo: Monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
1483Raphael: Urbino, Italy -- Painter (School of Athens)
1515Theresa of Avila / Teresa de Jesus: Spanish mystic writer / Saint
1615Pieter de Groot: Dutch regent / diplomat
1621Heinrich Schwemmer: Composer
1643Jose Solana: Composer
1660Arnold Houbraken: Dutch schilder / writer
1660Georg Ludwig: German Monarch of Hannover / King George I of Gt Britain
1727Maximilian III Jozef: Elector of Bayern (1745-77)
1729Pieter Fouquet: Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet)
1737Francesco Zannetti: Composer
1741Johann Andre: Composer
1750Francisco A G de Miranda: Venezuelan freedom fighter
1760Thomas Clarkson: English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)
1766Joseph Weigl: Austria -- Composer / conductor (Emmeline)
1770Sophie Mereau: Writer
1779Angelo Maria Benincori: Composer
1799Karl Adolph von Basedow: German artist (Ziekte van Basedow)
1806Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele: Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies (1861-66)
1817Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras: Composer
1818Wade Hampton: South Carolina, United States -- Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1840Mehemed Emin Pasja: German explorer / Governor (Equatoria)
1853Rudolf Kittel: German theologist (Psalms)
1862Aristide Briand: France -- 11x Premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
1868Cuno Amiet: Switzerland -- Painter
1868Wojciech Gawronski: Composer
1871Willem Mengelberg: Utrecht, Netherlands -- Conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)
1872Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell: Spanish General (Morocco)
1883William H Harris: Composer

Died on March 28

0193Publius Helvius Pertinax: Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
0593Guntram: French King in Burgundy, dies at about 67
1285Martinus IV [Simon de Brion]: Pope (1281-85)
1566Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein: Austrian diplomat, dies at 79
1673Adam Pijnacker: Dutch landscape Painter / etcher, buried at 51
1677Wenzel Hollar: Bohemia cartoonist / etcher, dies at about 69
1687Constantine Huygens: Diplomat / Poet / Composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1701Domenico Guidi: Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1712Jan van der Heyden: Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1799Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders: Dutch adventurer / spy, dies at 55
1801Ralph Abercromby: English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1818Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi: Composer, dies at 62
1840Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier: Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1847Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma: Composer, dies at 67
1849Stephan L Endlicher: Austrian priest / botany, dies at 44
1856Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov: Composer, dies at 76
1860Johann Ludwig Bohner: Composer, dies at 73
1863James Cooper: US attorney / senator / Union Brigadier General, dies at 52
1865Albert G Bilders: Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
1868James Thomas Brudenell: 7th Earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
1877Vincenzo Fioravanti: Composer, dies at 77
1880Achille Peri: Composer, dies at 67
1885Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman: Composer, dies at 53
1887Ditler G Monrad: Danish Bishop / Premier (1863-..), dies at 75
1889Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler: Killed by husband William Kemmler
1896E Rundle Charles: Writer
1907Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg: Composer, dies at 65
1908John Eliot: English meteorology, dies at 68
1910Edouard [Judas] Colonne: French violinist / conductor
1914Hanus Trnecek: Composer, dies at 55

Events on Mar 29

0502Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
16381st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673Eng King Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
1795Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798Republic of Switzerland forms
1804Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1814Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
182720,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1848Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1852Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 andwomen to work more than 10 hours a day
1864Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
1865Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia
1867British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871Albert Hall opens by Queen Victoria in London
1882Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1897Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1912Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1919Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1924Bayern and Vatican reach accord
1927Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1928Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1929Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games
1932Jack Benny debuts on radio
1935French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage

Born on Mar 29

1484Johann Spangenberg: Composer
1519Carlo Caraffa: Italian Cardinal
1561Santorio Sanctorius: Trieste, Italy -- Physician / burned at stake / heretic
1602John Lightfoot: English theologist / literary (Horae Hebraicae)
1616Johann Erasmus Kindermann: Composer
1725Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder: Composer
1752Edward Jones: Composer
1790John Tyler: Virginia, United States -- (D / W) 10th President (1841-1845)
1799Edward Stanley: Earl Derby (C), British Prime Minister (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
1813John Letcher: Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884
1816James Gallant Spears: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1817Constantine S Aksakov: Russian historian / poet
1819Edwin Drake: Drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819Isaac Mayer Wise: Rabbi / founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
1821Joshua Thomas Owen: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1822Joseph Quinaux: Belgian painter
1826Wilhelm Liebknecht: German MP (social-democratic)
1829Ritta & Christina: Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1829Robert Emmet Rodes: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1831Amelia Barr: Writer
1848Aleksei Kuropatkin: Russian General / Minister of War
1867Cy [Denton True] Young: Gilmore, Ohio -- Pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911)
1869Ales Hrdlicka: United States -- Anthropologist / curator (US National Museum)
1869Edwin Lutyens: London, England -- Architect
1875Lou Henry Hoover: 1st lady (1929-33)
1875Paul Rubens: Composer
1876Jan Ingenhoven: Composer
1876Joseph Schmidlin: German church historian / antifascist
1883Donald Dexter Van Slyke: US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1886Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson: Composer

Died on Mar 29

1058Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen]: 1st Belg Pope (1057-58)
1650Cornelis Galle I: Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1655Valerius Andreas: Flemish historian, dies at 66
1697Nikolaus Bruhns: Composer
1745Robert Walpole: 1st British Premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1792Gustav III: King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet: Mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1802Frederic Thieme: Composer, dies at 51
1837Maria Fitzherbert: Morganatic Wife of King George IV
1839Bernardus JC Dibbets: Dutch Baron / General Major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1847Auguste De Polignac: Premier France, dies at 66
1848John Jacob Astor: Charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1866Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch: Rabbi / Chassidic leader
1880Jakob Axel Josephson: Composer, dies at 62
1886John Keble: Theologian, Bournemouth
1888Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan: Composer, dies at 74
1891Georges-Pierre Seurat: French Painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1892William Bowman: English anatomist, dies at 75
1911Felix Alexandre Guilmant: Composer, dies at 74
1912Robert F Scott: British pole explorer (Antarctica)
1917Fran Gerbic: Composer, dies at 76
1930Anton Bettelheim: Writer
1933Alexander Schmuller: Russian / Dutch violinist / conductor, dies at 52
1937Karol Szymanowski: Polish / Ukraine Composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1945Karl T Sapper: German geographer / geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1955Everard Verachtert: Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1958W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy: Composer, dies at 84
1959Sara Wennerberg-Reuter: Composer, dies at 84
1963Pola Gojawiczynska: Polish Author (Stolica), dies at 64
1964Ted Collins: Pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63