1727

This article is about the year 1727.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1724 1725 1726 – 1727 – 1728 1729 1730

1727 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1727 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1727 MDCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2480
Armenian calendar	1176 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6477
Bahá'í calendar	-117–-116
Bengali calendar	1134
Berber calendar	2677
British Regnal year	13 Geo. 1 – 1 Geo. 2
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	1783–1784
- 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
Minguo calendar	185 before ROC 民前185年
Thai solar calendar	2270

Year 1727 (MDCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• April 11– Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
• June 11 – George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.
• June 27 – Uxbridge, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.

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.
• November 27 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin was laid.

Date unknown

• 1727–1800 – 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 Committee of 300 is founded with financial support from the Rothschild family. The committee's long term aims are to organize politics, commerce, banking, media, and the military in the interests of the ruling dynasties of the world, more specifically The Black Nobility.
• The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.
• Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, by the French Ursuline Sisters.
• Ursuline Academy is founded by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Ursula in New Orleans. Ursuline Academy enjoys the distinction of being both the oldest, continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

Births

• 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
• October 23 – Empress Xiaoyichun of China (d. 1775)
• November 26 – Artemas Ward, American Major General (d. 1800)
• December 6 – Johann Gottfried Zinn (d. 1757)
• December 27 – Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (d. 1805)

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 or 1681)