Browse Historical Events by Day: What Happened on March 27th?

King Amalric II of Jerusalem dies.

Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, expelling Jews from England.

Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.

Gregory XI, the last French pope of the Avignon Papacy, is elected.

A rebellion in England led by the Earl of Northumberland against King Henry IV begins.

The Treaty of Amiens is signed, temporarily ending hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars.

The U.S. first lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Iwa Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant the first two cherry trees from a gift of 3,020 trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to Washington, D.C. The two first trees were planted on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tidal Basin. The ceremonial event is now commemorated at the annual Washington’s National Cherry Blossom Festival. After the end of the 2024 spring’s National Cherry Blossom Festival, the National Park Service will cut down 158 cherry trees from the nearly 3,700 total to reconstruct a seawall around the Tidal Basin, fortifying the area against sea level rise and extreme precipitation events. More