What happened on 27 May?

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

1. 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg Peter the Great founds his new capital on the Neva, opening Russia to the Baltic.
2. 1905 Battle of Tsushima Admiral Tōgō annihilates the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Tsushima Strait; one of history's most one-sided naval victories.
3. 1967 1967 Australian referendum Over 90% of Australians vote to count Aboriginal people in the census and let the Commonwealth legislate for them, the most decisive Yes in Australian referendum history.
4. 1794 Born: Cornelius Vanderbilt American shipping and railroad tycoon; built the New York Central system.
5. 1937 Golden Gate Bridge opens San Francisco's iconic Art Deco suspension bridge.
6. 1941 Sinking of the Bismarck The Royal Navy hunts down and sinks Germany's most powerful battleship.
7. 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Statute formalising the right against unlawful detention; cornerstone of English liberty.
8. 1930 Chrysler Building opens Art Deco New York skyscraper that briefly held the title of world's tallest.
9. 1974 Presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Liberal social reform — the vote at eighteen, legal abortion, divorce by consent — overtaken by the oil shocks.
10. 1860 Garibaldi takes Palermo Three weeks after landing at Marsala with a thousand ill-armed volunteers, Garibaldi bluffs and street-fights his way into Sicily's capital against 20,000 Bourbon regulars — and Eu
11. 1960 1960 Turkish coup The army overthrows the elected Menderes government and later executes him, the first of several military interventions in Turkish politics.
12. 1968 Pompidou negotiates the Grenelle Accords The prime minister buys off the general strike of May 1968 with a 35 per cent rise in the minimum wage.
13. 1915 Tehcir Law deportations The Ottoman government legalises the mass deportation of Armenians from Anatolia.