1827

1827 was 44 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and eight years after Alabama became a state.

Events

• The Alabama Legislature held sessions at the Indian Queen Hotel in Tuscaloosa.
• Buck's Store was recognized as a post office.
• Roupes Valley Baptist Church was founded.
• The state extended the commission of Stouts Road south to Elyton.
• Tuscaloosa was chosen as the site for the University of Alabama.
• David Hanby and his sons built a mill on Turkey Creek, establishing the community of Hanbyville.
• December 13: Blountsville was incorporated.

Individuals

• Elisha Duvall succeeded Hawkins Burden as Walker County Sheriff.
• Baylis Grace was hired as an assistant to Harrison Goyne, circuit clerk at Elyton.
• James M. Nabors succeeded Ezekiel Henry as Shelby County Sheriff.

Births

• Ashton Bailey
• Margaret Bailey
• May: Davis Austin, jailor
• May 15: John Gillespy Sr, pioneer farmer
• September 3: William Hickman, Jefferson County Treasurer

Deaths

• February 9: John Looney, War of 1812 veteran and pioneer

Context

In 1827, Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, was founded in New York City by John Russwurm. Lord Liverpool was succeeded by George Canning as British Prime Minister, who died shortly thereafter and was succeeded by F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. J. J. Audubon began publishing Birds of America.

Notable births in 1827 included surgeon Joseph Lister, artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, photographer Alberto Henschel, author Ellen G. White, and religious reformer Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri. Notable deaths included heir-presumptive to the British throne Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany; mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace; physicist Alessandro Volta; composer Ludwig van Beethoven; physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel; and poet and painter William Blake.

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