WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. APRIL
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Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. (27. April 33. BC)

Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity. (27. April 395)

Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire. (27. April 629)

First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar. (27. April 1296)

Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict. (27. April 1509)

Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. (27. April 1521)

Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca. (27. April 1522)

Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar. (27. April 1539)

Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. (27. April 1565)

Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. (27. April 1578)

The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands (27. April 1595)

The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army. (27. April 1650)

The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. (27. April 1667)

First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. (27. April 1749)

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut. (27. April 1777)

First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn). (27. April 1805)

Beethoven composes Für Elise. (27. April 1810)

War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada). (27. April 1813)

Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. (27. April 1840)

American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. (27. April 1861)