History Anniversaries in 2027

49 events, battles and landmarks from the atlas that reach a round anniversary in 2027, from the 25th to the 1850th, each linked to the map of its time.

200th anniversary (1827)

• Battle of Navarino
• Battle of Navarino · Battle of Navarino
• The Great Fire of Turku · Turku

500th anniversary (1527)

• Troops of Charles V sack Rome · Rome
• Fatahillah takes Sunda Kelapa and renames it Jayakarta · Jakarta

700th anniversary (1327)

• The Djinguereber mosque is built · Timbuktu
• Djinguereber Mosque (built or begun)

900th anniversary (1127)

• The Jingkang Incident: Jin armies sack Bianjing · Kaifeng

1100th anniversary (AD 927)

• Rila Monastery (built or begun)

1600th anniversary (AD 427)

• Nalanda (built or begun)

150th anniversary (1877)

• Qing forces retake Kashgar · Kashgar

350th anniversary (1677)

• Gorée

550th anniversary (1477)

• Uppsala University is founded · Uppsala

650th anniversary (1377)

• Gregory XI returns to Rome · Avignon

950th anniversary (1077)

• Canossa
• The walk to Canossa · Canossa
• Work begins on the Hohensalzburg Fortress · Salzburg

1850th anniversary (AD 177)

• The martyrs of Lyon · Lyon

25th anniversary (2002)

• Euro notes and coins introduced

75th anniversary (1952)

• Hosts the Summer Olympics · Helsinki
• The July Revolution overthrows King Farouk · Cairo
• The Mau Mau uprising · Nairobi

125th anniversary (1902)

• Becomes capital of French Indochina · Hanoi
• Becomes capital of French West Africa · Dakar

175th anniversary (1852)

• Second Anglo-Burmese War: Britain occupies Rangoon · Yangon

225th anniversary (1802)

• Gia Long founds the Nguyễn dynasty with its capital at Huế · Huế

325th anniversary (1702)

• A great fire destroys most of the city · Bergen

375th anniversary (1652)

• The Dutch found Cape Town · Cape Town
• Jan van Riebeeck sets up a supply station · Cape Town

425th anniversary (1602)

• The Dutch East India Company is founded · Amsterdam
• Geneva beats off a night attack by Savoy (the Escalade) · Geneva
• The Bodleian Library opens · Oxford
• Naqsh-e Jahan Square (built or begun)

475th anniversary (1552)

• Ivan the Terrible takes Kazan · Kazan
• Ivan IV takes Kazan; Russia expands down the Volga · Kazan

625th anniversary (1402)

• Battle of Ankara
• Battle of Ankara · Battle of Ankara
• Timur captures Bayezid I at the Battle of Ankara outside the city · Ankara
• Timur takes Smyrna from the Knights Hospitaller · İzmir
• Timur’s army sacks Bursa · Bursa

725th anniversary (1302)

• The Bruges Matins uprising, followed by the Battle of the Golden Spurs · Bruges

775th anniversary (1252)

• First mentioned in the records · Stockholm
• Casting of the Great Buddha begins · Kamakura

925th anniversary (1102)

• The Almoravids retake Valencia · Valencia

1225th anniversary (AD 802)

• The Khmer Empire is founded · Angkor
• Jayavarman II proclaims himself universal monarch; the Khmer Empire begins · Angkor

1275th anniversary (AD 752)

• Eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha at Tōdai-ji · Nara
• Tōdai-ji (built or begun)

1625th anniversary (AD 402)

• Honorius moves the Western capital to Ravenna · Ravenna

Other years: 2026