Editing 1827 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 6]] – [[Greek War of Independence]]: The [[Treaty of London (1827)|Treaty of London]] between France, Britain and Russia, demands that the [[Ottoman Empire|Turks]] agree to an armistice in [[Greece]].
* [[July 9]] – [[Zarafa (giraffe)|Zarafa]], the giraffe given by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt to King Charles X of France, arrives at the royal palace in Paris.<ref name=Zarafa/>
* [[July 14]] – The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu]] is founded in the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].
* [[August 31]] – [[F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]], becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] following the death of [[George Canning]].
* [[September 4]] – The [[Great Fire of Turku]] destroys three-quarters of the city (at this time [[Finland]]'s largest), with 27 human casualties.
* [[September 20]] – A petition for a land grant for 215 acres on the north bank of [[Rio Grande]], just across from Paso del Norte (modern-day [[Ciudad Juárez]]), is approved; the first residence is built on what is modern-day [[El Paso, Texas]].
* [[September 22]] – [[Joseph Smith]] will claim in [[1838]] that on this day he took the [[golden plates]] from the place where they had been stored, and that he began writing down the [[Book of Mormon]] from them the following December.