400 Historic Events for August 27
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| 1665 |
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"Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
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| 1666 |
Birth |
Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
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| 1667 |
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Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
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| 1667 |
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Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
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| 1719 |
Birth |
John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
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| 1730 |
Birth |
Hamann, writer
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| 1739 |
Birth |
Michel Delalande, composer
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| 1746 |
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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
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| 1748 |
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James Thomson, dies
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| 1752 |
Birth |
Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
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| 1768 |
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Anne-Fran‡ois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
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| 1770 |
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
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| 1776 |
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British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
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| 1783 |
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1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
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| 1788 |
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Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
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| 1789 |
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French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
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| 1798 |
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Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
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| 1799 |
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English invasion army lands in North-Holland
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| 1809 |
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Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
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| 1813 |
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Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
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| 1816 |
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Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
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| 1824 |
Birth |
Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brig General (Union volunteers)
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| 1827 |
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Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
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