A Regency Era Timeline 1827 in progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorealing Kindersley book.

I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1827:

Year

Month Day

Event



1827

Feb 1

Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, was born.



1827

Feb 7

Ballet (Deserter) was introduced to US at Bowery Theater in NYC.



1827

Feb 7

Franz Anton Dimmler (73), composer, died.



1827

Feb 17

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (81), Swiss educator, died.



1827

Feb 27

Richard W. Johnson (d.1897), Bvt Major General (Union Army), was born.



1827

Feb 27

A Mardi Gras street procession in New Orleans was initiated by students, who were home from school in France. They formed a parade of masked marchers on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the period of penance begins on Ash Wednesday.



1827

Feb 28

The first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.



1827

Mar 5

Pierre-Simon Laplace (b.1749), French mathematician, astronomer, physicist, died. He invented perturbation theory and wrote the 5-volume work “Celestial Mechanics.” In 1998 Charles Couiston Gillespie published his biography “Pierre-Simon Laplace: A Life in Exact Science.”



1827

Mar 5

Alessandro Volta (b.1745), Italian physicist who made 1st battery (1800), died.



1827

Mar 16

The first Afro-American newspaper , Freedom’s Journal, was published in New York City.



1827

Mar 26

Ludwig von Beethoven (56), German composer, died in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bead “I shall hear in heaven.” It was later determined that he suffered from lead poisoning. In 1995 Tia DeNora authored “Beethoven and the Construction of Genius.” In 2000 Russell Martin authored “Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved.”



1827

Mar 29

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners.



1827

10-Apr

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: George Canning



1827

Apr 2

William Holdman Hunt, English painter (Light of the World), was born.



1827

Apr 2

Joseph Dixon began manufacturing lead pencils.



1827

Apr 5

Joseph Lister (d.1912), English physician, was born. He founded the idea of using antiseptics during surgery.



1827

Apr 7

English chemist John Walker invented wooden matches.



1827

Apr 10

Lewis Wallace (d.1905), soldier, lawyer, diplomat and author (Ben Hur), was born. “As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”



1827

Apr 13

Hugh Clapperton, Scottish traveler and explorer of West and Central Africa, died in Sokoto, Nigeria, of dysentery.



1827

Apr 20

John Gibbon (d.1896), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.



1827

Apr 26

Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), was born.



1827

May 4

John Hanning Speke, English explorer, was born. He discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile.



1827

May 29

Reuben Lindsay Walker (d.1890), Brigadier General (Confederate Army), was born.



1827

Jun 5

Athens fell to the Ottomans during Greek War of Independence.



1827

Jun 12

Johanna Spyri (d.1901), Swiss author, was born. She is best known for her novel Heidi, the story of a young girl who leave her home in the Swiss Alps for adventures in the world below. [see June 12, 1829]



1827

Jul 4

New York state law emancipated adult slaves. The laws were rewritten to make sure that all slaves would eventually be freed.



1827

Jul 16

Josiah Spode, potter, died.



1827

8-Aug

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, 1st Viscount Goderich



1827

Aug 10

There were race riots in Cincinnati  and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.



1827

Aug 12

William Blake (b.1757), English visionary engraver and poet, died. In 2001 G.E. Bentley Jr. authored “The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake.”



1827

Aug 22

Industrialist Ezra Butler Eddy (d.1906) was born in Vermont. E.B. Eddy, who became known as the matchmaker of the world, moved his small friction-match factory from Burlington, Vt., to Hull, Que., in 1851. He expanded, modernized and diversified to produce a variety of wood and paper products. Eddy was elected mayor of Hull six times and was a member of the Quebec legislature for six years.



1827

Aug 22

Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria), was born.



1827

Sep 18

John Towsend Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys, who wrote the Jack Hazzard and Toby Trafford series, was born.



1827

Oct 15

Charles Darwin reached Christ’s Counsel, Cambridge.



1827

Oct 20

British, French and Russian squadrons entered the harbor at Navarino, Greece, and destroyed most of the Egyptian fleet there. The Ottomans demanded reparations.



1827

Nov 10

Alfred Howe Terry (d.1890), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.



1827

Nov 15

Creek Indians lost all their property in US.



1827

Nov 26

Ellen Gould White, founder of the Seventh Day Adventists, was born.



1827



A free school for infants opens in New York under Joanne Bethune, which is supposed to free working-class parents from some of their child-care burdens. The school is open to children ages 18 months to 5 years.



1827



At the Battle of Navarino, the Egyptian fleet is destroyed by the combined efforts of the French, Russian and British forces.



1827



Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is performed for the first time. At 18, his talents are surpassed only by his sister, Fanny, who, now 21, has been told since the age of 14 that due to her sex “music….for you it can and must be only an ornament, never the root of your being and doing…and your very joy at the praise he (Felix) earns proves that you might, in his place, have merited equal approval.” She is not permitted to publish her choral and piano pieces, but Felix will publish six of her compositions under his own name.



1827



The Treaty of London is signed by Britain, Russia, and France to guarantee the Greeks their independence.



1827



Berkeley Ship Canal connects Sharpness (on the Severn) to Gloucester.



1827



Britain, Russia and France break with Austria regarding the Greek war of independence — Austria still feeling threatened by any revolt against empire while the Russians want to protect their fellow Orthodox Christians. Egypt, a part of the Ottoman Empire, is helping the Turks, but a combined British, French and Russian fleet sink an Egyptian and Turkish fleet at Navarino Bay, on the west coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula. This weakens Ottoman power in Greece and in Arabia.  



1827



In Vienna, Austria, over 10,000 mourners attend the burial of Beethoven.



1827



New York passes a state law emancipating slaves.



1827



Luther Roby, a Concord printer, published “A Journal Kept By Mr. John Howe While He Was Employed As A British Spy during the Revolutionary War; Also While He Was Engaged In The Smuggling Business.” The book was later thought to based on the journal of British officer Henry De Berniere and published by John Gill, member of the Sons of Liberty, in 1779.



1827



David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary, published “Grammar of the Language of the Lenni-Lenape,” a Delaware Indian tribe.



1827



V. Bellini wrote his opera “Il Pirata.” It was his 1st major success.



1827



August Marschner wrote his opera “Der Vampyr.”



1827



Franz Schubert composed his song cycle “Winterreise.”



1827



Businessman and publisher Louis A. Godey bought the Boston Godey’s Lady’s Book, a ladies’ magazine, and offered its editorship to successful novelist Sarah Hale, a widow with four children to support. Godey’s Lady’s Book, with Sarah Josepha Hale as its editor and driving force for 50 years, was an important cultural influence in 19th-century America. Godey’s enjoyed great success publishing morally upright and sentimental literature and avoiding unfeminine topics like politics, scandal and controversy. By mid-century it had 150,000 subscribers. Particularly popular were fashion plates, such as the steel-plate engraving of wedding gowns shown here, crafts, décor and housekeeping ideas that greatly influenced American home life. Competition and Hale’s retirement in 1877 led Louis Godey to sell the magazine in 1883. Thirteen years later, Godey’s was absorbed into another publication.



1827



The first edition of New York’s Freedom’s Journal was published by John Russworm and Samuel Cornish. “For too long others have spoken for us.” The journal lasted for 2 years.



1827



John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), British evangelical preacher, first conceived the doctrine of a secret rapture based on a passage of St. Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians.



1827



Joseph Smith, Mormon founder, received his tablets on Mount Cumorah near Palmyra, NY.



1827



Catherine McAuley (1787-1841), founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland. They engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy. Frances Warde led the sisters out from Ireland. In 2002 John J. Fialka authored “Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America.”



1827



The U.S. and Great Britain submitted the Maine and New Brunswick boundary dispute to arbitration by the King of the Netherlands in 1827, whose compromise was accepted by the British but rejected by the U.S.



1827



Roger Brooke Taney became attorney general of Maryland.



1827



The government hired Capt. Henry Miller Shreve to remove a 100-mile “raft” of snags and trees that prevented steamboats from entering the Red River. His work camp later became the city of Shreveport, La.



1827



John Davis opened the doors of the first full-dress American gambling casino in New Orleans.



1827



John Herschel proposed contact lenses.



1827



Friction matches were first produced.



1827



Francois Soudre invented the artificial language Solresol. He proposed using the musical scale for the building blocks of an international vocabulary.



1827



Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier, French mathematician who served under Napoleon in Egypt, compared the interaction of the earth and its atmosphere to the setting in a hothouse. He said the Earth’s gases are like the greenhouse glass walls and help keep us warm.



1827



Greenwich Academy, the oldest school for girls in Connecticut, was founded.



1827



Balkaria, a Caucasus region later known as known as Kabardino-Balkari, was annexed by Russia.



1827



The Univ. of Toronto, Canada, was founded.



1827



The Chippewa community of Aamjiwnaang First Nation was founded in Ontario just across from Port Huron, Mich. Much of the original reserve was sold via questionable land deals in the 1960s. In 1993 the percentage of boys born in the community began dropping and by 2005 girls outnumbered boys by 3:1. Local petrochemical manufacturing was suspected as the cause.



1827



The Cocos Islands (aka Keeling Islands) in the Indian Ocean were settled by the Clunies-Ross family. A descendent ceded the coral atolls to Australia in 1978.



1827



In France Victor Hugo wrote the official coronation ode for Charles X, the last Bourbon king.



1827



The lithopane (lithophane) was patented in Paris. It allowed a picture, embedded in porcelain, to be viewed in light by varying the thickness of a porcelain base. Generally credited as being the invention of Baron Paul de Bourguignon, of Rubelles, France, in 1827, the earliest forms of lithophanes were actually produced in China many years before other countries produced them.



1827



Joseph Niepce, French inventor, met with English botanist Francis Bauer, who agreed to present Niepce’s ground breaking photographic work to the Royal Society, which rejected the bid. Before leaving London Niepce made a gift of his 1826 pewter image to Bauer. The pewter image was re-discovered in 1952 by photo historian Helmut Gernsheim.



1827



The Hanseatic city of Bremen, faced with the silting of its Weser River, bought land for Bremerhaven from the king of Hanover in order to maintain a link to the sea.