Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 27
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December 27: St. Stephen's Day in Eastern Christianity
- 537 – The current Hagia Sophia building in Istanbul, originally built as a church before it later became a mosque in 1453 and then a museum in 1935, was inaugurated.
- 1831 – Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England, on what became an historic expedition to South America that made his name as a naturalist.
- 1904 – Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, about a mischievous little boy who can fly, premiered in London.
- 1918 – A public speech by famed Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pictured) in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland Uprising against Germany and Prussia.
- 1978 – Juan Carlos I of Spain promulgated a new constitution after it was passed by a referendum on December 6, marking the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy