1727
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s |
| Years: | 1724 1725 1726 - 1727 - 1728 1729 1730 |
| 1727 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
| Countries: Great Britain - |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1727 (MDCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1727
[edit] January – June
- June 11 – George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.
- June 27 – Uxbridge, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
[edit] July – December
- August 30 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
- September 8 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
- November 18 – An earthquake in Tazriz, Persia kills 77,000.
[edit] Undated
- 1727 to 1800 – Lt. Col. Francisco de Mello Palheta smuggles coffee seeds to Brazil in a bouquet, starting a coffee empire.
- The last execution for witchcraft is carried out in Scotland.
- The first Amish move to America.
- The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.
- Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, USA, by the French Ursuline Sisters.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1727 MDCCXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2480 |
| Armenian calendar | 1176 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -117 – -116 |
| Berber calendar | 2677 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2271 |
| Burmese calendar | 1089 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7235 – 7236 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年十二月初十日 (4363/4423-12-10) — to —
丁未年十一月十九日(4364/4424-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 1443 – 1444 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1719 – 1720 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5487 – 5488 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1782 – 1783 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1649 – 1650 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4828 – 4829 |
| Holocene calendar | 11727 |
| Iranian calendar | 1105 – 1106 |
| Islamic calendar | 1139 – 1140 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 12 (享保12年) |
| Korean calendar | 4060 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2270 |
- January 2 – James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
- May 10 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
- May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
- August 14 – Henriette-Anne of France (died 1752) and Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France (died 1759), twin daughters of King Louis XV of France
- November 26 – Artemas Ward, American Major General (d. 1800)
- December 6 – Johann Gottfried Zinn (d. 1757)
- December 27 – Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (d. 1805)
- date unknown – Empress Xiao-Yi of China (d. 1775)
[edit] Deaths
- February 22 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
- March 31 – Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist (b. 1642)
- May 17 – Empress Catherine I of Russia (b. 1684)
- June 8 – August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
- June 11 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
- July 9 – Veronica Giuliani, mystic (b. 1660)
- July 23 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. c. 1660)
- August 4 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
- August 14 – William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
- September 7 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (b. 1647)
- September 25
- Jakob Abbadie, Swiss Protestant preacher (b. c. 1654)
- Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist (b. 1666)
- November 10 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
- December 26 – Baltasar de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of Arión, viceroy of New Spain (b. 1658)
- date unknown – Jesse of Kartli, King of Georgia (b. 1680/81)
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