November 27
Events
Pre-1600
- AD 25 - Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
- 176 - Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
- 395 - Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
- 511 - King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
- 602 - Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.
- 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1382 – Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by Barquq, ending the long Turkic Bahri Mamluk period in general and particularly the Qalawunid dynasty, and beginning the reign of the Circassian Burji Mamluk.
- 1542 - Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace women fail to murder the Jiajing Emperor, and are executed by slow-slicing.
1601–1900
- 1727 - The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
- 1755 - An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes and Meknes.
- 1809 - The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
- 1815 - Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- 1830 - Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
- 1835 - James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
- 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1856 - The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1868 - American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1879 - War of the Pacific: Battle of Tarapacá: The confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Peruvian Army takes place in Tarapacá, the Peruvian victory is consummated with the death of the 2 generals and the capture the Chilean general in said place of battle, headed by the Peruvian victory of General Juan Buendía y Noregia.
- 1895 - At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
- 1896 - Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
1901–present
- 1901 - The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1917 - P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland.
- 1918 - The Makhnovshchina is established.
- 1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1940 - In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.
- 1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 1944 - World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
- 1945 - CARE is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
- 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1968 - Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major professional men's basketball league, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
- 1971 - The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
- 1973 - Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States..
- 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
- 1978 - In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 1978 - The Kurdistan Workers' Party is founded in the Turkish village of Fis.
- 1983 - Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
- 1984 - Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
- 1985 - Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with Rodolfo Neri Vela becoming the first Mexican astronaut.
- 1989 - Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
- 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
- 1997 - Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- 1999 - The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female prime minister in New Zealand's history.
- 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- 2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- 2004 - Blackwater 61 crash: A CASA C-212 Aviocar crashes into the Koh-i-Baba mountain range in Afghanistan, killing six.
- 2006 - The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
- 2008 - XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
- 2009 - Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
- 2015 - An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
- 2020 - Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.
- 2020 - Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.
- 2024 - Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria.
Births
Pre-1600
- 111 - Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian
- 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song
- 1380 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon
- 1422 - Gaston IV, Count of Foix, French nobleman
- 1548 - Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher
- 1558 - Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma
- 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō
- 1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar
- 1586 - Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter
1601–1900
- 1630 - Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria
- 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France
- 1640 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
- 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician
- 1710 - Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic
- 1746 - Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs
- 1746 - Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1754 - Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist
- 1759 - Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer
- 1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence
- 1798 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader after whom Pretoria was named, Prime Minister of the Natalia Republic
- 1804 - Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer
- 1809 - Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet
- 1814 - Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States
- 1820 - Rachel Brooks Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
- 1823 - James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria
- 1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
- 1841 - Nikoline Harbitz, Norwegian author
- 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman
- 1845 - Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author
- 1853 - Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator
- 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1859 - William Bliss Baker, American painter
- 1862 - Katherine Sleeper Walden, American environmental activist
- 1865 - Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician
- 1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator
- 1870 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland
- 1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer
- 1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School
- 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel
- 1875 - Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast
- 1877 - Katharine Anthony, American biographer
- 1878 - Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian poet and critic
- 1878 - Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach
- 1885 - Daniel Mendaille, French actor
- 1885 - Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright
- 1886 - Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese–French painter and printmaker
- 1887 - Masaharu Homma, Japanese general
- 1888 - Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- 1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic
- 1894 - Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator
- 1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint
- 1898 - Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher
- 1900 - Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host