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What Happened in October 1827

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Oct 1 The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia

Darwin Enters Cambridge

Oct 15 Charles Darwin admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge

Naturalist Charles Darwin

Oct 20 Naval Battle of Navarino (off the Peloponnese coast): English, Russian, French combined fleet beat a Turkish and Egyptian force, paving the way for Greek independence
Oct 22 German chemist Friedrich Wöhler is the first to isolate pure aluminium

Famous Birthdays

Oct 2 Edmund Jackson Davis, American lawyer, soldier, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Augustine, Florida (d. 1883)
Oct 6 Cark Reidel, German composer and conductor, born in Cronenberg, Wuppertal (d. 1888)
Oct 14 James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
Oct 14 William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in York, England (d. 1904)
Oct 21 Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1904)
Oct 29 Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry), born in Paris (d. 1907)
Oct 31 Richard Morris Hunt, American architect and educator, born in Brattleboro, Vermont (d. 1895)

Famous Deaths

Oct 10 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), dies at 49

Famous People by Cause of Death

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