About August 27
August 27, 2024 is the 240th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 27
- 410 –The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
- 1172 –Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
- 1232 –The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
- 1689 –The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- 1793 –French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
- 1798 –Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
- 1810 –Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
- 1813 –French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
- 1828 –Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
- 1859 –Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
- 1861 –Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1883 –The eruption of Krakatoa
- 1896 –Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- 1921 –The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
- 1962 –The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
- 1971 –An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
- 1975 –The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
- 1991 –The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1993 –The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- 2003 –Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
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