27 October in history

5 events that happened on 27 October, from 1275 to 1904.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1275 CE 751 years ago

    Amsterdam is first mentioned in a charter

    Count Floris V of Holland granted toll exemption to the people living near the dam on the Amstel. The charter is the earliest document to mention Amsterdam, then a small fishing settlement.

    Amsterdam

  2. 1553 CE 473 years ago

    Michael Servetus is burned for heresy in Geneva

    Geneva's council, with John Calvin's backing, had the Spanish physician and theologian Michael Servetus burned for denying the Trinity. His death became a landmark in arguments for religious toleration.

  3. 1682 CE 344 years ago

    William Penn arrives to found Pennsylvania

    William Penn reached the Delaware River aboard the Welcome to take possession of his new colony. He laid out Philadelphia as a planned 'greene Countrie Towne' that later hosted the Declaration of Independence.

  4. 1787 CE 239 years ago

    The first Federalist essay is published

    Writing as 'Publius', Alexander Hamilton published the first of 85 essays urging New Yorkers to ratify the new US Constitution. With Madison and Jay he produced the most influential commentary on the Constitution.

  5. 1904 CE 122 years ago

    The New York City Subway opens

    The Interborough Rapid Transit Company opened New York's first underground line, from City Hall to 145th Street. Around 150,000 people rode on the first day of a network that grew into one of the world's largest.

    New York

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