THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 27
April 27 in history
What happened on April 27: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1289, 1881 and 1994, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Fall of Tripoli
27 Apr 1289 — Sultan Qalawun storms the county’s capital and levels it; the survivors are killed or enslaved as they flee to an offshore island. Only Acre now remains. A site of memory.
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— Elisavetgrad pogrom
15/27 Apr 1881 — Anti-Jewish riots, led mostly by townsmen and migrant workers, break out here and spread through some two hundred towns and villages of the south-west in 1881–82. Around fifty people die, half of them rioters, and thousands of Jewish homes and shops are looted. Jewish memory calls the wave the “storms in the south”, and this memorial marks its victims.
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— South African general election
27 Apr 1994 — Kilometre-long queues wind through every township and suburb as some 20 million people vote, most for the first time in their lives. Four days of counting; then the map completes in red.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
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