Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 27
This is a list of selected February 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1594 – Henry IV of France was crowned at the Chartres Cathedral near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty. | refimprove section |
| 1617 – Rise of Sweden as a great power: Sweden signed the Treaty of Stolbovo to end the Ingrian War with Russia, making large territorial gains. | Needs more references, short |
| 1801 – Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. | unreferenced section |
| 1900 – The Trades Union Congress held a conference in London to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates—the Labour Party. | outdated, recentism |
| 1963 – Juan Bosch became the first democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic since the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo two years earlier. | no footnotes |
| 1976 – The rebel movement Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. | unreferenced section, neutrality disputed |
| 1996 – The media franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the first version of the video game Pocket Monsters Aka and Midori. | lead too short |
Eligible
- 380 – Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire as a result of the Edict of Thessalonica.
- 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick was signed, setting the terms under which an English fleet and army could enter Scotland to expel French troops defending the Regency of Mary of Guise.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the capture or arrest of 850 Loyalists over the following days.
- 1870 – The current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany.
- 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.
- 1973 – Approximately 200 followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied' the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota for five weeks.
- 1982 – The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, known for its performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas, gave its last performance.
- 1988 – The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target of a violent pogrom.
- 2002 – A violent riot in Gujarat, India, where at least 1,000 people (mostly Muslims) were killed, was triggered by a train fire that killed 58 Hindu pilgrims.
February 27: Independence Day in the Dominican Republic (1844)
- 907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
- 1812 – Manuel Belgrano (pictured) raised the Flag of Argentina, which he designed, for the first time in the city of Rosario, during the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1989 – A wave of protests, riots and looting known as the Caracazo resulted in a death toll of anywhere between 275 and 3,000 people in the Venezuelan capital Caracas and its surrounding towns.
- 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released.