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On April 27, 247: Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.

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Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.

Philip I, commonly known as Philip the Arab, was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. After the death of Gordian III in February 244, Philip, who had been Praetorian prefect, rose to power. He quickly negotiated peace with the Sasanian Empire and returned to Rome to be confirmed by the Senate.

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Born on April 27

Mathys Tel 2005– French footballer (born 2005)
Arch Manning 2004– American football player (born 2004)
Xavier Worthy 2003– American football player (born 2003)
Anthony Elanga 2002– Swedish footballer (born 2002)
Peter Hola 1999– Australian rugby league footballer
Cristian Romero 1998– Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Jesse Ramien 1997– Australian rugby league footballer
Nick Kyrgios 1995– Australian tennis player (born 1995)
Corey Seager 1994– American baseball player (born 1994)
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Keenan Allen 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Lara Gut 1991– Swiss alpine skier (born 1991)
Austin Dillon 1990– American racing driver (born 1990)
Lars Bender 1989– German footballer (born 1989)
Sven Bender 1989– German footballer (born 1989)
Lizzo 1988– American singer and rapper (born 1988)
Semyon Varlamov 1988– Russian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Taylor Chorney 1987– Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1987)
William Moseley 1987– British actor (born 1987)

People

Died on April 27

Jiggly Caliente Filipino-American drag performer (1980–2025)
C. J. Sansom British author of crime fiction (1952–2024)
Jerry Springer American TV personality and politician (1944–2023)
Liao Guoxun Chinese politician (1963–2022)
Manoj Das Indian author (1934–2021)
Vinod Khanna Indian film actor, director and politician (1946-2017)
Sadanoyama Shinmatsu Japanese sumo wrestler (1938–2017)
Gene Fullmer American boxer (1931–2015)
Verne Gagne American professional wrestler and football player (1926–2015)
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Alexander Rich American biologist (1924–2015)
Yigal Arnon Israeli lawyer
Vujadin Boškov Yugoslavian footballer and manager (1931–2014)
Daniel Colchico American football player (1935–2014)
Harry Firth Australian racing driver (1918–2014)
Aída Bortnik Argentine screenwriter
Lorraine Copeland British archaeologist (1921–2013)
Antonio Díaz Jurado Spanish footballer
Jérôme Louis Heldring Dutch journalist (1917–2013)

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  1. 247 Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.

    Roman emperor from 244 to 249

    Philip I, commonly known as Philip the Arab, was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. After the death of Gordian III in February 244, Philip, who had been Praetorian prefect, rose to power. He quickly negotiated peace with the Sasanian Empire and returned to Rome to be confirmed by the Senate.

  2. 395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

    Roman emperor from 383 to 408

    Arcadius was Roman emperor from 383 to his death in 408. He was the eldest son of the Augustus Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and the brother of Honorius. Arcadius ruled the eastern half of the empire from 395, when their father died, while Honorius ruled the west.

  3. 711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

    Calendar year

    Year 711 (DCCXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 711 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  4. 1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

    1296–1328 war between England and Scotland

    The First War of Scottish Independence was the first of a series of different wars between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. It lasted from the English invasion of Scotland in 1296 until the de jure restoration of Scottish independence with the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton in 1328. De facto independence was established in 1314 AD following an English defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn.

  5. 1509 Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513

    Pope Julius II was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.

  6. 1521 Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
  7. 1522 A Spanish-Imperial army defeats French-Venetian army in the battle of Bicocca. The battle marks the end of dominance of Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield and is one of the first where firearms play a decisive role.
  8. 1539 Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
  9. 1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
  10. 1595 The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
  11. 1650 The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
  12. 1667 Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
  13. 1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn).
  14. 1813 War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
  15. 1861 American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
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  1. 1906 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  2. 1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  3. 1911 The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.
  4. 1927 Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
  5. 1936 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
  6. 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
  7. 1945 World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
  8. 1945 World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
  9. 1953 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  10. 1967 Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
  11. 1974 One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.
  12. 1976 Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
  13. 1978 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  14. 1978 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  15. 1978 Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.

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