1927

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s

align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
January 19 - Britain sends troops to China
February 12 - First British troops land in Shanghai
February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead
February 19 - General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops
February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 4 - A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
March 6 - In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic
March 10 - Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden
April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support
April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
April 12 - Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai
April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang
April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan
April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua
May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
May 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation
May 13 - George V proclaims the change of his style from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
May 20-21 first solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
May 22 - 8.6 richter scale earthquake in Xining, China kills 200.000
May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
May 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation
May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations to Albania
June 7 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated
June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
June 13 - Leon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested in France
June 13 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin
July 15 - Violent riots in Vienna - 200 dead
July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
August 1 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army during the Nanchang Uprising
August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 22 - In Hyde Park, London, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti
August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
August 24-25 - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead
September 14 - underwater earthquake in Japan - over 100 dead
October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
October 7 - Mercedes Gleitze is the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel
October 9 - Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz
November 10 - Unexplained explosions in Canton, Ohio
November 12 - Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.
November 12 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union
November 12 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
November 24 - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales
December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 12 - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets
December 30 - Japan's first subway line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.

unknown dates

The British Broadcasting Corporation was granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier