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1827
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1827
Events
January–March
February 20
–
Battle of Ituzaingo
(Passo do Rosário): A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets
Argentine
–
Uruguayan
troops in combat.
February 28
– The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
is incorporated, becoming the first
railroad
in
America
offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
March 7
–
Brazilian
marines sail up the
Rio Negro
and attack the temporary naval base of
Carmen de Patagones
,
Argentina
; they are defeated by the local citizens.
March 7
–
Shrigley Abduction
:
Ellen Turner
, a wealthy
heiress
in
Cheshire
,
England
, is
abducted
by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
, the future
politician
in
colonial
New Zealand
.
March 16
–
Freedom's Journal
, the first
African-American
owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in
New York City
by
John Russwurm
.
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