Events for July 27

July 27, 1782

Second and third Catholic Relief Acts

The third Catholic Relief Act came into effect on July 27, 1782. This act follows the second which was issued on May 04, 1782.

July 27, 1710

George Carpenter, former MP for Newtown, is wounded at Battle of Almenara, Spain

Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy (10 February 1657 – 10 February 1731) was a British army officer who also sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. First commissioned in 1685, Carpenter took part in the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, before being transferred to Flanders in 1692 for service in the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years’ War.

July 27, 1602

Hugh O'Neill's principal vassal, Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan, submits to Henry Docwra

Donnell Ballagh O’Cahan (died 1627) was an Irish landowner in Ulster.

July 27, 1866

Transatlantic telegraph cable

Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables.