1727

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Year 1727 (MDCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1727

January - June

• June 11 - George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.
• June 27 - Uxbridge, Massachusetts is incorporated as a Town.

July - December

• September 8 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambs, UK kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• November 18 - Earthquake in Tazriz, Persia: about 77,000 dead.

Undated

• 1727 to 1800 - Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta smuggles coffee seeds to Brazil in a bouquet starting a coffee empire.
• Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland.
• The first Amish move to America.
• The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.
• Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, USA, by the French Ursuline Sisters.

Births

• January 2 - James Wolfe, British general (died 1759)
• May 10 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (died 1781)
• May 14 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)
• November 26 - Artemas Ward, American Major General (died 1800)
• December 6 - Johann Gottfried Zinn (died 1757)
• December 27 - Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (died 1805)

See also :Category: 1727 births.

Deaths

• February 22 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (born 1661)
• March 31 - Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist (born 1642)
• May 17 - Empress Catherine I of Russia (born 1684)
• June 8 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (born 1663)
• June 11 - King George I of Great Britain (born 1660)
• July 23 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born c.1660)
• August 4 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)
• August 14 - William Croft, English composer (born 1678)
• September 7 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (born 1647)
• September 25 - Jakob Abbadie, Swiss Protestant preacher (born c.1654)
• November 10 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (born 1659)

See also :Category: 1727 deaths.

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