Major Events
- Jan 1 Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
- Jan 17 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
- Feb 7 Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
- Feb 27 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
- Feb 28 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
- Mar 7 Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand
- Mar 15 University of Toronto is chartered
- Mar 16 First US newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" owned and operated by African Americans begins publishing in New York City
- Mar 29 20,000 people attend Ludwig von Beethoven's burial in Vienna, Austria
- Apr 2 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils
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Famous Weddings in 1827
- Jan 4 Naturalist and entomologist Thomas Say (39) secretly weds natural science illustrator Lucy Way Sistare (26)
- Jan 18 American religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds future church group movement leader Emma Hale (22) in South Bainbridge, New York, until his death in 1844
- Mar 1 Father of U.S. History George Bancroft (26) weds first wife Sarah Dwight
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