User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/April 27

April 27

 * 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
 * 1521 - Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
 * 1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
 * 1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).
 * 1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.