27 July in history

5 events that happened on 27 July, from 1214 to 2012.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1214 CE 812 years ago

    Philip II of France wins the Battle of Bouvines

    Philip Augustus defeated Emperor Otto IV and his allies, backed by King John of England, at Bouvines. The defeat wrecked John's hopes of recovering Normandy and weakened him before Magna Carta.

    England

  2. 1694 CE 332 years ago

    The Bank of England receives its royal charter

    The Bank of England was founded to lend 1.2 million pounds to William III's government for war with France. It became the model for central banks around the world.

    British EmpireBank of England

  3. 1953 CE 73 years ago

    Armistice ends the fighting in the Korean War

    The armistice signed at Panmunjom halted three years of war that had cost millions of lives. It created a demilitarised zone roughly along the 38th parallel, but no peace treaty has ever been signed.

  4. 1996 CE 30 years ago

    Bomb explodes in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park

    A pipe bomb exploded during a concert at the Atlanta Olympics, killing one woman and injuring 111. Security guard Richard Jewell was wrongly suspected; Eric Rudolph later confessed.

  5. 2012 CE 14 years ago

    Danny Boyle's ceremony opens the London Olympics

    The London 2012 Olympics opened with 'Isles of Wonder', a ceremony tracing Britain from rural idyll through the Industrial Revolution to the NHS and pop culture. It was watched by hundreds of millions.

    Industrial RevolutionLondon

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