About February 27

February 27, 2025 is the 58th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 355 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 27

  • 380 –
    Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
  • 1594 –
    Henry IV is crowned King of France.
  • 1626 –
    Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
  • 1776 –
    American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
  • 1812 –
    Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
  • 1860 –
    Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
  • 1861 –
    Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
  • 1921 –
    The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
  • 1922 –
    A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
  • 1943 –
    The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
  • 1961 –
    The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • 1964 –
    The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
  • 1973 –
    The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
  • 1976 –
    The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  • 1986 –
    The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
  • 1991 –
    Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
  • 2002 –
    Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
  • 2004 –
    The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.

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