On this day: 27 March
Events, births and deaths on 27 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Christina McKelvie
- Deaths · Ku Feng
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Lahore suicide bombing
- Deaths · Mother Angelica
100 years ago1926
- Births · Frank O'Hara
- Deaths · Georges Vézina
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 972 · Births · Robert II of France
- 965 · Deaths · Arnulf I, Count of Flanders
- 973 · Deaths · Hermann Billung
Events · 24
- 16381638 Calabrian earthquakes — four earthquakes in Calabria, Italy
- 1782Second Rockingham ministry — Government of Great Britain
- 1802Treaty of Amiens — 1802 Treaty during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1809Battle of Ciudad-Real — 1809 battle of the Peninsular War
- 1814Battle of Horseshoe Bend — 1814 battle of the Creek War
- 1836Goliad massacre — event of the Texas Revolution
- 18711871 Scotland versus England rugby union match — rugby union match
- 1918Union of Bessarabia with Romania — proclaimed union in 1918, creating Greater Romania
- 1941Yugoslav coup d'état — Yugoslav coup d'état, 27 March 1941, replaced the regency led by Prince Paul and installed King Peter II
- 1943Battle of the Komandorski Islands — 1943 naval battle between American and Japanese forces in the North Pacific area
- 19641964 Alaska great earthquake and tsunami — second most powerful earthquake to hit a region in recorded history
- 1976Washington Metro — Washington, D.C. rapid transit system
- 1977Tenerife airport disaster — runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
- 19991999 F-117A shoot-down — aviation accident
- 2002Passover massacre — 2002 Hamas suicide bombing in Israel
- 2002Nanterre massacre — mass shooting in Nanterre, France in 2002
- 2005Grey's Anatomy — American medical drama television series
- 2013March 2013 Nantou earthquake — which occurred on 27 March 2013, killing one person
- 2015Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack — 2015 Al-Shabaab attack in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 20162016 Lahore suicide bombing — suicide bombing which occurred on 27 March 2016
- 2018iPad (6th generation) — tablet PC by Apple
- 202294th Academy Awards — award ceremony for films of 2021
- 20232023 Nashville school shooting — 2023 mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee
- 20232023 visit by Ma Ying-jeou to China — 2023 former Taiwan President Ma Iing-jiu visit mainland China
Births · 60
- 972(Julian date)Robert II of France — king of the Franks from 996 to 1031
- 1416(Julian date)Francisco — Italian mendicant friar, founder of the Order of Minims
- 1676Francis II Rákóczi — leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711
- 1784Sándor Kőrösi Csoma — Hungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)
- 1785Louis XVII of France — heir of the French throne
- 1797Alfred de Vigny — French poet, playwright, and novelist (1797–1863)
- 1809Georges-Eugène Haussmann — French official and politician (1809-1891)
- 1822Henri Murger — novelist and poet from France
- 1845Wilhelm Röntgen — German physicist (1845–1923)
- 1847Otto Wallach — German chemist (1847–1931)
- 1851Vincent d'Indy — French composer and teacher
- 1857Karl Pearson — English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
- 1863Henry Royce — English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
- 1871Heinrich Mann — German writer (1871–1950)
- 1879Edward Steichen — American photographer, artist and curator (1879-1973)
- 1883Marie Under — Estonian poet (1883-1980)
- 1886Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — German architect (1886–1969)
- 1886Sergei Kirov — Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
- 1893Karl Mannheim — Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist (1893-1947)
- 1899Gloria Swanson — American actress (1899–1983)
- 1901Eisaku Satō — Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
- 1901Carl Barks — American cartoonist (1901-2000)
- 1909Golo Mann — German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
- 1912James Callaghan — former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
- 1917Cyrus Vance — United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 (1917–2002)
Deaths · 60
- 965(Julian date)Arnulf I, Count of Flanders — First Count of Flanders from 918 to 964
- 1184(Julian date)George III of Georgia — King of Georgia
- 1378(Julian date)Gregory XI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1370 to 1378
- 1462(Julian date)Vasily II of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow (1415-1462)
- 1482(Julian date)Mary of Burgundy — duchess of Burgundy and wife of emperor Maximilian I (1457-1482)
- 1564(Julian date)Lutfi Pasha — Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1613Sigismund Báthory — Prince of Transylvania (1572–1613)
- 1615Margaret of Valois — Queen of France and Navarre until 1599 (1553-1615).
- 1625(Julian date)James VI and I — King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 (1566-1625)
- 1729Leopold, Duke of Lorraine — duke of Lorraine, Bar and of Teschen
- 1757Johann Stamitz — Czech composer and violinist
- 1770Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — Italian painter (1696–1770)
- 1848Gabriel Bibron — French herpetologist and zoologist (1805–1848)
- 1850Wilhelm Beer — astronomer and banker (1797–1850)
- 1864Jean-Jacques Ampère — French philologist (1800–1864)
- 1875Edgar Quinet — French writer (1803-1875)
- 1878George Gilbert Scott — English architect (1811–1878)
- 1889John Bright — British Radical and Liberal statesman (1811–1889)
- 1898Syed Ahmed Khan — Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
- 1910Alexander Emanuel Agassiz — Swiss-American zoologist and engineer (1835-1910)
- 1918Henry Adams — American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)
- 1918Martin Sheridan — American athletics competitor (1881–1918)
- 1923James Dewar — Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
- 1925Carl Neumann — Prussian mathematician (1832-1925)
- 1927Klaus Berntsen — Danish politician (1844-1927)
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