On This Day in History for September 27
Events in History
- 70 Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Roman army
- 1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England
- 1290 Earthquake in the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China, reportedly kills 100,000 people
- 1312 Duke of Brabant John II signs the Charter of Kortenberg creating a Parliament of Kortenberg (The Lords of Kortenberg)
- 1331 Battle of Płowce: Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order in a strategic victory
- 1540 Pope Paul III officially recognizes the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) co-founded by Ignatius of Loyola as a religious order of the Catholic church
- 1590 Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history
- 1605 The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
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Louis XIII
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Samuel Adams
Agustín de Iturbide
Hiram R. Revels
Louis BothaWeddings in History
- 1759 Political activist Thomas Paine (22) weds household servant Mary Lambert (21)
- 1865 Physicist Johannes van der Waals (27) weds Anna Magdalena Smit (18)
- 1876 Poet Frederic Mistral (46) weds Marie Louise Aimee Rivière
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Edgar Degas
Jimmy Doolittle
William Safire
Hugh HefnerSeptember in History
'I Have Heard The Voice of Adolf Hitler . . .'
Hitler's speech threatening Czechoslovakia was broadcast on this day. Among those listening to the ‘mad dog of Europe’ was a journalist in an American hotel.
September 26, 1938
Fear as First Passenger Train Reaches 15mph
The steam engine Locomotion No. 1 took passengers for a ride on this day – the first in the world to do so and, for at least one person, at frightening speed.
September 27, 1825
MacArthur Meets Hirohito
General Douglas MacArthur meets Japanese Emperor Hirohito on September 27, 1945
September 27, 1945
Norman Invasion of England
William the Conqueror and his army land at Pevensey as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
September 28, 1066