1727

{{year nav|
Year '1727' ('MDCCXXVII') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1727

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1727

January - June

★ June 11 - George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.

July - December

★ September 8 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambs, UK kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

★ November 18 - Earthquake in Tazriz, Persia: about 77,000 dead.

Undated

★ '1727' to 1800 - Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta smuggles coffee seeds to Brazil in a bouquet starting a coffee empire.

★ Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland.

★ The first Amish move to America.

★ The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.

★ Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, USA, by the French Ursuline Sisters.

Births

★ January 2 - James Wolfe, British general (died 1759)

★ May 10 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (died 1781)

★ May 14 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)

★ November 26 - Artemas Ward, American Major General (died 1800)

★ December 6 - Johann Gottfried Zinn (died 1757)

★ December 27 - Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (died 1805)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 22 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (born 1661)

★ March 31 - Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist (born 1642)

★ May 17 - Empress Catherine I of Russia (born 1684)

★ June 8 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (born 1663)

★ June 11 - King George I of Great Britain (born 1660)

★ July 23 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born c.1660)

★ August 4 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)

★ August 14 - William Croft, English composer (born 1678)

★ September 7 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (born 1647)

★ September 25 - Jakob Abbadie, Swiss Protestant preacher (born c.1654)

★ November 10 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (born 1659)
: ''See also .''