1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
- February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo
- February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- March 1 St David's College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter opens its doors to its first students.
- March 7 – Ellen Turner is abducted – The Shrigley Abduction case begins
- March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
- April – Husain Dei of Algeria slaps the French consul Decalina to the face – France ends up declaring war
- April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
- May 14 – Culprits of the Shrigley Abduction are sentenced for three years each
- May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
- June - Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph.
- July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
- August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning
- October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.
- September 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
Births
- March 8 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist, (d. 1875)
- April 5- Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic
- May 19 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
- June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
- July 13 - Hugh O'Brien, mayor of Boston
- July 17 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist.
- November 26 - Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder or Seventh-day Adventism
- George M. Harding , architect
Deaths