December 27th, 1685

Born on December 27th, 1685

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What happened on December 27th?

December 27th, 2002

The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim.

December 27th, 1997

Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.

December 27th, 1985

The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

December 27th, 1979

Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.

December 27th, 1966

A group of three men made the first descent into the Cave of Swallows (pictured), the largest known cave shaft in the world, in Aquismón, Mexico.

December 27th, 1932

New York City's Radio City Music Hall (pictured) opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.

December 27th, 1929

Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.

December 27th, 1922

The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō (pictured), the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.

December 27th, 1918

A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.

December 27th, 1904

The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.

December 27th, 1845

John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use.

December 27th, 1831

HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin (pictured) as a naturalist.

December 27th, 1657

Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

December 27th, 1521

A period of unrest in Wittenberg following the arrival of three men of the Radical Reformation, known as the Zwickau prophets, was quelled after Martin Luther's release from custody.

December 27th, 0537

The reconstructed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 27th

Same year
Born in 1685

65

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer (1685–1750)

*March 21st, 1685, Eisenach †July 28th, 1750, Leipzig

74

George Frideric Handel

German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)

*February 23rd, 1685, Halle (Saale) †April 14th, 1759, London

47

John Gay

English poet and playwright (1685–1732)

*June 30th, 1685, Barnstaple †December 4th, 1732, London

85

Charles-Jean-François Hénault

French writer and historian (1685-1770)

*February 8th, 1685, Paris †November 24th, 1770, Paris

67

George Berkeley

Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)

*March 12th, 1685, Kilkenny †January 14th, 1753, Oxford

55

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor

*October 1st, 1685, Vienna †October 20th, 1740, Vienna

71

Domenico Scarlatti

Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti

*October 26th, 1685, Naples †July 23rd, 1757, Madrid

86

Samuel Urlsperger

German Lutheran theologian

*August 31st, 1685, Kirchheim unter Teck †April 20th, 1772, Augsburg

74

Sebastián de Eslava

Viceroy of New Grenada (1685-1759)

*January 19th, 1685, Enériz/Eneritz †June 21st, 1759, Madrid

62

Pierre Roques

(1685-1748)

*July 22nd, 1685, Tarn †April 13th, 1748, Basel

27

Teresa Lubomirska

Polish noble lady

*January 1st, 1685, Kraków †January 6th, 1712, Innsbruck

76

Christiane Charlotte of Nassau-Ottweiler

Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken, later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg

*September 2nd, 1685, Ottweiler †November 6th, 1761, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

73

Jacob Theodor Klein

Prussian scholar (1685-1759)

*August 15th, 1685, Kaliningrad †February 27th, 1759, Gdańsk

60

Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer

German botanist (1685-1746)

*April 30th, 1685, Hann. Münden †February 5th, 1746, Jena

33

Farrukhsiyar

Mughal Emperor

*August 20th, 1685, Aurangabad †April 28th, 1719, Delhi

66

Claude Joseph Geoffroy

French scientist (1685-1752)

*August 8th, 1685, Paris †March 9th, 1752, Paris

70

Antonio Bernacchi

Italian opera singer (1685-1756)

*June 21st, 1685, Bologna †March 1st, 1756, Bologna

77

Francesco Loredan

116th Doge of Venice (1685-1762)

*February 9th, 1685, Venice †May 19th, 1762, Venice

81

Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Dutch linguist (1685-1766)

*January 9th, 1685, Groningen †April 7th, 1766, Leiden

64

Theophilus Grabener

German educator

*November 3rd, 1685, Thümmlitzwalde †April 15th, 1750, Meissen

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1685 is a normal year and no leap year.

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