Events for November 27

November 27, 1857

Thomas Heazle Parke, surgeon, military officer and author, born

Birth in Clogher House, Kilmore, Co. Roscommon of Thomas Heazle Parke, surgeon, military officer and author.

November 27, 1703

The Great Storm of 1703 hits Britain, 8,000 people die in 24 hours

The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703.

November 27, 1612

Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, is the first of 40 new boroughs to be incorporated

Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

November 27, 1774

John Kyan, inventor, is born in Dublin

John Howard Kyan (27 November 1774 – 5 January 1850) was the inventor of the ‘kyanising’ process for preserving wood, was born on November 27, 1774, in Dublin, Ireland.