1827 - Wikipedia

Events

Nicéphore Nièpce makes the first true photograph
February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo[?]
February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered
April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister
May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard.
July 6 - Treaty of London[?] between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning
October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.

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