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This Day in History: March 27


March 27: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

  1. 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
  2. 1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
  3. 1851 - First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
  4. 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  5. 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  6. Famous Birthdays: Sophie Mereau (German author), Louis XVII of France, Alfred de Vigny (French author, poet, and playwright, Wilhelm Röntgen (German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Otto Wallach (German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

For famous birthdays and other daily events in history, visit our Daily Dose Activities.

Click Here for Yesterday in History: March 26

Click Here for Tomorrow in History: March 28

For more history resources on Internet 4 Classrooms, visit our Social Studies and History index. For Pre K-8th Grade Level History and Social Studies Resources, visit our Grade Level Index.

 

 

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