1727

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Years:	1724 1725 1726 - 1727 - 1728 1729 1730

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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).

Contents 1 Events of 1727 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1727

[edit] January - June

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

[edit] July - December

• August 30 - Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
• September 8 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• November 18 - Earthquake in Tazriz, Persia: about 77,000 dead.

[edit] Undated

• 1727 to 1800 - Lt. Col. Francisco de Mello 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.

[edit] Births

1727 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1727 MDCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2480
Armenian calendar	1176 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-117 – -116
Berber calendar	2677
Buddhist calendar	2271
Burmese calendar	1089
Chinese calendar	4363/4423-12-10 (丙午年十二月初十日) — to — 4364/4424-11-19 (丁未年十一月十九日)
Coptic calendar	1443 – 1444
Ethiopian calendar	1719 – 1720
Hebrew calendar	5487 – 5488
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1782 – 1783
- Shaka Samvat	1649 – 1650
- Kali Yuga	4828 – 4829
Holocene calendar	11727
Iranian calendar	1105 – 1106
Islamic calendar	1139 – 1140
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 12 (享保12年)
Korean calendar	4060
Thai solar calendar	2270
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• 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)
• August 14 - Henriette-Anne of France (died 1752) and Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France (died 1759), twin daughters of King Louis XV of France
• November 26 - Artemas Ward, American Major General (died 1800)
• December 6 - Johann Gottfried Zinn (died 1757)
• December 27 - Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (died 1805)
• date unknown - Empress Xiao-Yi of China (died 1775)

[edit] 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 9 - Veronica Giuliani, mystic (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)
  • Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist (born 1666)
• November 10 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (born 1659)
• Decembre 26 - Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, duque de Arión, viceroy of New Spain (born 1658)
• date unknown - Jesse of Kartli, King of Georgia (born 1680/81)