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On October 27, 312: Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

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Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.

People

Born on October 27

Haruka Kudo 1999– Japanese actress (born 1999)
Lonzo Ball 1997– American basketball player (born 1997)
James TW 1997– Musical artist
Rasmus Andersson 1996– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Kim Woo-seok 1996– South Korean singer and actor (born 1996)
Leon Draisaitl 1995– German ice hockey player (born 1995)
Rasmus Ristolainen 1994– Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Troy Gentile 1993– American actor (born 1993)
Kiefer Ravena 1993– Filipino basketball player (born 1993)
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Stephan El Shaarawy 1992– Italian footballer (born 1992)
Emily Hagins 1992– American filmmaker
Brandon Saad 1992– American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Daniel Sams 1992– Australian cricketer
Shohei Takahashi 1991– Japanese footballer
Alex Bentley 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
Dimitrios Gkourtsas 1990– Greek footballer
Oktovianus Maniani 1990– Indonesian association footballer
Mark Barron 1989– American football player (born 1989)

People

Died on October 27

Prunella Scales English actress (1932–2025)
Li Keqiang Premier of China from 2013 to 2023
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Thai businessman (1958–2018)
Takahito Japanese prince (1915–2016)
Ayerdhal French thriller and science fiction writer
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury Indian pharmacologist
Betsy Drake American actress, writer, and psychotherapist (1923–2015)
Philip French English film critic and radio producer (1933–2015)
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Daniel Boulanger French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter
Shin Hae-chul South Korean musician (1968–2014)
Starke Taylor American mayor
Noel Davern Irish politician (1945–2013)
Leonard Herzenberg American geneticist (1931–2015)
Luigi Magni Italian screenwriter and film director
Lou Reed American rock musician (1942–2013)
Michael Wilkes British Army general
Vinko Coce Musical artist

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  1. 312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

    Roman emperor from 306 to 337

    Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution. This was a turning point in the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.

  2. 1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

    Capital and largest city of the Netherlands

    Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area. Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  3. 1524 French troops lay siege to Pavia.

    Part of the Italian War of 1521–1526

    The Italian campaign of 1524–1525 was the final significant action of the Italian War of 1521–1526 launched by the French into Northern Italy. Led by Francis I of France, the French attempted to dislodge the Habsburgs from Italy in an attempt to control Italy for themselves. After the French invaded Lombardy, the campaign would then primarily consist of the French attempt to capture the city of Milan.

  4. 1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

    16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist

    Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553). He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry, and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages.

  5. 1644 Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.

    1644 battle of the First English Civil War

    The Second Battle of Newbury was a battle of the First English Civil War fought on 27 October 1644, in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. The battle was fought close to the site of the First Battle of Newbury, which took place in late September the previous year.

  6. 1674 The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.
  7. 1682 Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
  8. 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata.
  9. 1775 King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
  10. 1795 The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
  11. 1806 The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
  12. 1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
  13. 1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
  14. 1863 American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. Smith defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Brown's Ferry, opening up a supply line to the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  15. 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
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  1. 1907 Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
  2. 1914 World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  3. 1916 Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
  4. 1919 The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.
  5. 1922 A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
  6. 1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
  7. 1930 Ratifications are exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
  8. 1936 Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
  9. 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
  10. 1948 A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands.
  11. 1954 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
  12. 1958 Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
  13. 1961 NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
  14. 1962 Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
  15. 1962 By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

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