Oct 272008
Births
- Blessed Caterina Cittadini
- Blessed John Henry Newman
- Blessed Marco Antonio Durando
- Blessed Luigi Biraghi
- Bishop Edward Barron
- Father Alessandro di Troja
- Saint Teresa Eustochio Verzeri
- Blessed Diego José of Cádiz
- Sister Maria Teresa of the Holy Trinity
Papal Ascensions
Founded
Elevated
Suppressed
- Archdiocese of Vienne, France
- Diocese of Aleria, Corsica
- Diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France
- Diocese of Tréguier, France
- Diocese of Verdun, France
Other Events
- death of Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer
- death of Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor
- death of Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter
- death of Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Russian Tsar Paul I murdered; succeeded by his son Alexander I of Russia
- Treaty of Lunéville ends war between France and Austria
- birth of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons
- birth of David Farragut, American naval commander
- birth of Gijsbert Haan, founder of the Christian Reformed Church in North America
- birth of Heber Kimball, Mormon leader
- birth of János Kardos, Hungarian/Slovenian Lutheran preacher, teacher and writer
- birth of Thomas Cole, American artist
- birth of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer
- coup d’état in the Netherlands
- first census conducted in France
- first census conducted in Great Britain
- Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the first (and largest) asteroid Ceres
- Johann Wilhelm Ritter discovers ultraviolet radiation
- Joseph-Marie Jacquard develops a loom where the pattern was controlled by punch cards
- Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union
- Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope
- pascha of Tripoli declares war on the United States
- Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States (19 February)
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