1517
Capture of Cairo
Siege · North Africa
On this day
222 events in the atlas are dated to 27 January, from 632 CE to 2026. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
1517
Siege · North Africa
1868
War · East Asia · 1868 – 1869
1918
War · Europe
1967
Accident · North America
2011
Rebellion · Middle East · 2011 – 2012
2020
Epidemic · South Asia
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.