Editing September 27 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the [[Battle of Kircholm]].
*[[1669]] &ndash; The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long [[Siege of Candia]].
*[[1777]] &ndash; American Revolution: [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] becomes the capital of the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia.
*[[1791]] &ndash; The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to [[History of the Jews in France|Jews]].
*[[1821]] &ndash; The [[Army of the Three Guarantees]] triumphantly enters [[Mexico City]], led by [[Agustín de Iturbide]]. The following day Mexico is declared independent.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Mexico/Government]]|url=https://www.gob.mx/sedena/documentos/27-de-septiembre-de-1821-consumacion-de-la-independencia|title=27 de septiembre de 1821, Consumación de la Independencia de México (Spanish)|date=26 May 2016|access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Jean-François Champollion]] officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the [[Rosetta Stone]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Laura Hickman Neis|title=Ultra-Royalism and Romanticism: The Duc de Blacas's Patronage of Ingres, Delacroix, and Horace Vernet|publisher=University of Wisconsin–Madison|year=1987|page=249}}</ref> 
*[[1825]] &ndash; The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]], is ceremonially opened with the engine [[Locomotion No. 1|Locomotion]] pulling wagons with coal and passengers from [[Shildon]] to [[Darlington]] to [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Ransom | first = P.J.G. | title = The archaeology of railways | publisher = World's Work | location = Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780437144010 | page=45}}</ref>
*[[1854]] &ndash; The paddle steamer {{SS|Arctic}}, owned by the Collins Line of New York, [[SS Arctic disaster|sinks]] off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the ''[[SS Vesta]]''. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the ''Vesta'' are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the ''Arctic''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Graham | first = Ian | title = Alfred Maudslay and the Maya : a biography | publisher = University of Oklahoma Press | location = Norman | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780806134505 | page=255}}</ref>
*[[1875]] &ndash; The merchant sailing ship ''[[Ellen Southard]]'' is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.