This day in History - January 27

427 Historic Events for January 27
98 Death Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
672 Event St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
672 Death Vitalianus, pope (657-72)/saint, dies
847 Event Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
847 Death Sergius II, pope (844-47), dies
1164 Death Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies
1302 Event Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1538 Event States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1540 Death Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies
1546 Birth Joachim III Frederick, elector (Brandenburg)
1556 Event Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1556 Birth Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1565 Death Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64), dies
1592 Birth Pierre de La Barre, composer
1593 Event Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1612 Death Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
1625 Death Adriaen Valerius, notary/Neth Gedenck-clanck, dies at about 49
1629 Death Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68
1662 Event 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1662 Birth Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist
1669 Death Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, dies at 87
1671 Event Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1679 Birth Jean-Fran‡ois de Troy, French painter
1699 Death William Temple, statesman, dies
1701 Birth Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan (bishop)