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This year in history
In the year 1827

	February 27th	Mardi Gras was celebrated for the first time in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mardi Gras is the last day of the carnival and it was first celebrated on the year 1703 in in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
	March 15th	The University of Toronto was founded.
	March 26th	German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, died at the age of 57. Even though he had began loosing his hearing at his early twenties, he was still able to produce his musical masterpieces.
	April 7th	English inventor, John Walker, invented the friction match.
	April 23th	Greek revolution hero, George Karaiskakis, died after being wounded in a skirmish with Ottoman forces in the area of Faliron.
	July 4th	Slavery was abolished in the US state of New York.
	September 21st	Joseph Smith, Jr., an American religious leader, claimed that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, which he translated into 'The Book of Mormon'. He founded the 'Latter Day Saint movement', which gave rise to Mormonism.
	October 20th	The Naval battle of Navarino took place in which a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet was destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force. The battle took place in the port of Navarino of Pylos, Greece. The battle marked the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.

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