This is a list of selected February 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Blurb | Reason |
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; Clean Monday (Eastern Christianity, 2017) | refimprove |
: Independence Day in the Dominican Republic ( 1844) | refimprove section |
1594 – Henry IV of France was crowned at the Chartres Cathedral near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty. | refimprove sections |
1617 – Rise of Sweden as a great power: Sweden signed the Treaty of Stolbovo to end the Ingrian War with Russia, making large territorial gains. | Needs more references, short |
1801 – Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the US Congress. | unreferenced section |
1900 – The Trades Union Congress held a conference in London to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates—the Labour Party. | refimprove section |
1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany. | verify sources |
1963 – Juan Bosch became the first democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic since the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo two years earlier. | no footnotes |
1973 – Approximately 200 followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for five weeks. | refimprove section |
1976 – The rebel movement Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. | unreferenced section, external links |
2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released. | unreferenced section |
February 27: Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2017); Losar in Bhutan and Tibet (2017); Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia (2017)
Chelsea Clinton (b. 1980) · Ivan Pavlov (d. 1936)
This is a list of selected February 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Use only ONE image at a time
Blurb | Reason |
---|---|
; Clean Monday (Eastern Christianity, 2017) | refimprove |
: Independence Day in the Dominican Republic ( 1844) | refimprove section |
1594 – Henry IV of France was crowned at the Chartres Cathedral near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty. | refimprove sections |
1617 – Rise of Sweden as a great power: Sweden signed the Treaty of Stolbovo to end the Ingrian War with Russia, making large territorial gains. | Needs more references, short |
1801 – Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the US Congress. | unreferenced section |
1900 – The Trades Union Congress held a conference in London to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates—the Labour Party. | refimprove section |
1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany. | verify sources |
1963 – Juan Bosch became the first democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic since the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo two years earlier. | no footnotes |
1973 – Approximately 200 followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for five weeks. | refimprove section |
1976 – The rebel movement Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara. | unreferenced section, external links |
2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released. | unreferenced section |
February 27: Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2017); Losar in Bhutan and Tibet (2017); Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia (2017)
Chelsea Clinton (b. 1980) · Ivan Pavlov (d. 1936)