On August 27
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly August 27 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Aug 24 – Aug 30)
On 26 August 1071, near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in eastern Anatolia), the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes was decisively defeated by the Seljuk forces of Sultan Alp Arslan.
On 29 August 1831, working at the Royal Institution in London, Michael Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction by winding two insulated coils on opposite sides of an iron ring: switching current on or off in one coil induced a…
Receiving royal assent on 28 August 1833 and taking effect on 1 August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire, freeing some 800,000 enslaved people, chiefly in the Caribbean, Mauritius and…
The First Opium War (1839–1842) pitted the Qing dynasty against the British Empire after China's suppression of the illegal opium trade at Canton.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried the Campanian towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae under metres of ash, pumice and pyroclastic surges, killing thousands and freezing daily Roman life in place.
On 24 August 410 CE the Visigoths under their king Alaric entered Rome and plundered the city for three days, the first time Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy in nearly 800 years.
On 29 August 1526 Suleiman the Magnificent destroyed the army of King Louis II of Hungary at Mohács.
Beginning at dawn on 24 August 1572 in Paris, Catholic mobs and royal forces slaughtered French Protestants (Huguenots) who had gathered for the wedding of the Protestant Henry of Navarre to Margaret of Valois.
On 26 August 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a foundational statement of the principles of the French Revolution.
On 28 August 1963 more than a quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the largest political demonstrations in U.S. history to that point.