This Day In European History
27th May
Events1199: King John of England is crowned.
1328: King Philip VI of France is crowned.
1645: The siege of Leicester begins in the English Civil War.
1703: St. Petersburg is founded in Russia by Peter the Great.
1860: Garibaldi and his Redshirts capture Palermo.
1863: Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane opens.
1905: The Battle of Tsushima; Japan destroys almost all of Russia's Baltic fleet.
1940: British and French troops start evacuating from Dunkirk.
Births
1897: John Cockcroft, English physicist.
Deaths
1508: Duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan.
1564: John Calvin, French religious reformer.
1661: Archibald Campbell, Scottish anti-royalist, executed.
1707: Francoise-Athe de Rochechouart, French mistress.
1914: Joseph Wilson Swan, British lamp inventor.
