WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. DECEMBER
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The Hagia Sophia is completed. (27. December 537)

The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World. (27. December 1512)

Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege. (27. December 1655)

The Flushing Remonstrance is signed. (27. December 1657)

Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. (27. December 1703)

War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. It was the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. (27. December 1814)

Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution. (27. December 1831)

The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people. (27. December 1836)

Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. (27. December 1845)

Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny". (27. December 1845)

"Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. (27. December 1911)

The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. (27. December 1918)

Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. (27. December 1922)

Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. (27. December 1923)

Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. (27. December 1927)

Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", ostensibly as an effort to spread socialism to the countryside. (27. December 1929)

Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York, New York. (27. December 1932)

Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000. (27. December 1939)

Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja. (27. December 1939)

The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded. (27. December 1942)