Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

Charles ' wife Georgiana died in Worcester on 1 September 1827, the same year as his father, their second son ( also named Charles ) and their newborn son Alexander.

The volt is named in honor of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical battery.

The first species of this phylum was described in 1827 by the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville who named it Sipunculus vulgaris.

The law was named after the German physicist Georg Ohm, who, in a treatise published in 1827, described measurements of applied voltage and current through simple electrical circuits containing various lengths of wire.

William Barracks, renamed barracks Major Sabbe after the First World War and named for the 1990 Arts Square, dates from 1824 – 1827, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Geelong was named in 1827 by Governor Richard Burke, with the name derived from the local Wathaurong Aboriginal name for the region, Jillong, thought to mean ' land ' or ' cliffs '.

Taurine is named after the Latin taurus ( a cognate of the Greek ταύρος ) which means bull or ox, as it was first isolated from ox bile in 1827 by German scientists Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin.

It was named for John Haywood, the North Carolina State Treasurer from 1787 to 1827.

Sullivan County was organized at Newport in 1827 and is named for John Sullivan, the Revolutionary War hero and a former governor.

A historic marker in front of the Harris County Courthouse erected in 1954 by the Georgia Historical Commission reads as follows: " This county, created by Acts of the Legislature December 14, 1827, is named for Charles Harris, eminent Savannah jurist.

Forsyth County was named for John Forsyth, Governor of Georgia from 1827 – 1829 and Secretary of State under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

The station was named after the street on which it stands, which in turn was named in honour of Lord Liverpool, prime minister from 1812 to 1827, having been built as part of an extension of the City towards the end of his term in office.

The county was formed on October 13, 1827, and named for the St. Francis River.

Lafayette County was formed on October 15, 1827 and named in honor of Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War and who toured the US in 1824 / 25 upon the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation.

Hanna City was founded in 1882 and named after William Hanna ( born 1827 ), who was president of the Peoria-Farmington Railroad, which ran through Hanna City.

* Three Forks, named in 1827 ( with the opening of a post office ) for the junction of the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, the Glasgow Road, and the Bardstown Road ;

Founded in 1827, the city is named for the ideal of political unity.

David Evans was named the local agent of the Holland Land Company in 1827.

Settled in 1827, it was incorporated in 1906 from part of the former Rahn Township ; it is named for the coal industry.

Reedsville was named for James Reed, who moved to the area in 1827 and owned land covering most of the future townsite.

Charles Willson Peale ( 1741 – 1827 ), artist, patriot, and founder of a major American art dynasty, named several of his children after notable European artists, including a daughter, Angelica Kauffman Peale.

The Laplace operator is named after the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ), who first applied the operator to the study of celestial mechanics, where the operator gives a constant multiple of the mass density when it is applied to a given gravitational potential.

John Guard established a shore station at Te Awaiti in 1827 for right whales.

* 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.

* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district

* John Young ( building contractor ) ( 1827 – 1907 ), Australian building contractor

* John C. Brown ( 1827 – 1889 ), Confederate general, Tennessee governor, ( D )

* John Evans Brown ( 1827 – 1895 ), Canterbury ( New Zealand ) politician, known as " Yankee Brown "

* John Walker ( inventor ) ( 1781 – 1859 ), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827

From 1825 – 1827, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members were shipwrecked on Kerguelen.

The palace complex was substantially remodelled once again, this time by Sir John Soane, between 1824 and 1827.

At Cambridge University starting in 1827, Darwin learnt science as natural theology from botanist John Stevens Henslow, and read Paley, John Herschel and Alexander von Humboldt.

* September 20 – John Coleridge Patteson, Anglican bishop and missionary ( martyred ) ( b. 1827 )

* May 21 – John Drew Sr., stage actor & manager, ( b. 1827 )

* 1827 – Englishman John Walker invents the first friction match which he names Lucifer.

* March 16, 1827 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.

The first American plastic surgeon was John Peter Mettauer, who, in 1827, performed the first cleft palate operation with instruments that he designed himself.

" John Lemprière in his Classical Dictionary ( 1827 ) wrote, " Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures.

* Lemprière, John ( 1827 ) ( 6th ed .).

John Eager Howard ( June 4, 1752October 12, 1827 ) was an American soldier and politician from Maryland.

* John A. Burbank ( 1827 – 1905 ), American businessman and fourth Governor of Dakota Territory.

* John Hall Gladstone ( 1827 – 1902 ), British chemist

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