May 27, 1199 - King John, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, is crowned King of England.
May 27, 1541 - Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury is executed on the orders of Henry VIII (probably for the fact that she had Plantagenet blood in her veins). The execution was botched and it took several swings of the axe to take off her head.
May 27, 1703 - Peter the Great founds the city of St. Petersburg.
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