On April 27, history records 48 notable events, 194 famous births and 80 deaths, spanning the years 395 to 1570.
Events on this day include: Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity. (395); Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire. (629).
Notable people born on April 27 include Frederick Jagiellon (1468), François Béroalde de Verville (1556), Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (1564).
Notable figures who died on this day include Ardashir III (630), Rudolf I, Count of Bregenz (1160), Zita (1272).
Events on 27 April 48
See all →Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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Birthdays on 27 April 194
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Deaths on 27 April 80
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