28th February » The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
7th March » Empire of Brazil known as Brazilian Brazilian Marine Corps named marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
7th March » Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is kidnapping called abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
7th April » John Walker (inventor) John Walker, an English people English pharmacist chemist, sells the first match friction match that he had invented the previous year.
4th July » Slavery is abolished in New York or New York State.
22nd August » José de la Mar becomes List of Presidents of Peru called President of Peru.
1st October » Russo-Persian War (1826–28) named Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
20th October » Battle of Navarino: a combined Ottoman Empire Turkish and Khedivate of Egypt Egyptian armada is defeated by United Kingdom British, Bourbon Restoration French, and Russian Empire Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
Famous Birthdays in 1827
2nd January » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
7th January » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
21st January » Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
27th January » Nakahama Manjirō, Japanese translator (d. 1898)
5th February » Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)
28th February » Édouard-Charles Fabre, Canadian archbishop (d. 1896)
8th March » Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
27th March » Ernesto Rossi (actor) called Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
2nd April » William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
5th April » Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)
8th April » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican ophthalmologist and politician (d. 1898)
10th April » Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (d. 1905)
11th April » Jyotirao Phule, Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist (d. 1890)
14th April » Augustus Pitt Rivers, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900)
16th April » Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet (d. 1879)
28th April » William Hall (VC) known as William Hall, Canadian soldier (d. 1904)