This Day In European History

27th January

Events
1302: Dante Alighieri, Florentine writer, is banished from Florence by political rivals; he writes the Divine Comedy while in exile.
1710: Reforms by Tsar Peter the Great produce Russia's first ever official Treasury balance sheet; it's over 800,000 rubles in the red.
1944: Siege of Leningrad lifted.
1945: Advancing Soviet troops discover the Auschwitz camp system.

Births
1720: Samuel Foote, English playwright.
1805: Samuel Palmer, English painter.
1832: Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), British clergyman and writer.
1740: Hester Lynch Piozzi, English author.
1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Composer.
1859: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
1891: Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer.

Deaths
1814: Johann Fichte, German philosopher.
1816: Samuel Hood, British Admiral in the Seven Years, American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary wars.
1901: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.

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