March 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 279 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1849: Royal troops build fortifications around the Fort of Shaykh Tabarsi and begin bombarding it. Some of these fortifications were destroyed by a group of nineteen led by Mírzá Muhammad-Báqir a few days later.
• 1863: Mírzá Áqá Ján publicly recited the Tablet of the Holy Mariner to the Bábís in Baghdad on the fifth day of Naw-Rúz.
• 1987: The National Spiritual Assembly of South and West Africa officially changes its name to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of South Africa.

Births

• 1864: A. L. M. Nicolas, European scholar who wrote about the Báb.
• 1885: Birth of Knight of Bahá’u’lláh Charles Dunning.