What happened on 27 March?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1845 Born: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen German physicist; discoverer of X-rays.
2. 1625 Reign of Charles I Reign of Charles I (1625-1649) as monarch of England (later Britain/UK).
3. 1809 Born: Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann Prefect of the Seine who redesigned Paris under Napoleon III.
4. 1924 Born: Sarah Vaughan American jazz vocalist.
5. 1854 Kerosene patented Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents the process for making kerosene from coal; cheap lamp fuel that displaces whale oil and spurs the rise of the oil industry.
6. 1782 Lord Rockingham's second premiership Rockingham returns to negotiate American independence and dies after fourteen weeks in office.
7. 1766 Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith's gentle novel of a clergyman's family undone and restored — sold by Johnson to save its author from arrest, adored for a century after.