3 January 1827Chief EngineerIsambard Kingdom Brunel
Brunel assumes full responsibility for directing the engineering work inside the Thames Tunnel.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1827, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Brunel assumes full responsibility for directing the engineering work inside the Thames Tunnel.
Appointed Commander in Chief, British Army
Birth of George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley
Resigns after suffering a stroke, Prime Minister for 14 years 41 weeks
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain for three months
Church commands Greek land forces during the failed attempt to relieve Athens
Cochrane supports operations to relieve the Acropolis of Athens
The River Thames breaks into the tunnel and Brunel helps evacuate the workers before directing repairs to the breach.
The River Thames breaks into the workings and Brunel directs efforts to save the tunnel and repair the breach.
Signs provisions intended to end active fighting while the powers mediate a political settlement.
Accepts a framework for Greek self-government while formal Ottoman suzerainty is retained.
Supports a tripartite agreement offering mediation and an autonomous Greek settlement under Ottoman suzerainty.
Backs a settlement based on mediation rather than direct annexation or exclusive influence by any Great Power.
Accepts a plan in which the Sultan retains formal suzerainty while Greece receives internal autonomy.
His government concludes the tripartite agreement with France and Russia proposing mediation and Greek autonomy under Ottoman suzerainty.
Signs the tripartite Treaty of London for Britain as Foreign Secretary.
Death of George Canning
Death of William Blake
Appointed Prime Miinister of Britain, ater the death of George Canning
Inherits the policy of implementing the London agreement after Canning's death.
Commands the British Mediterranean squadron involved in enforcing the armistice policy arising from the London agreement.
The naval Battle happens more by accident than by design as a result of a manoeuvre by the Allied Commander in Chief Admiral Codrington aimed at coercing Ibrahim to obey Allied instructions. Destroys the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino while in command of a combined British, French and Russian fleet. A fleet seeks out Turkish & Egyptian fleets sinking 50 & destroying the Turkish fleet
Leads the combined Allied fleet at Navarino after Ottoman-Egyptian forces refuse to comply with Allied demands.
Leads the Allied fleet in the battle that destroys the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet and transforms the diplomatic balance over Greece.
Receives news of the Allied naval victory at Navarino while his government continues the policy created by Canning.
Commands the British contingent of the Allied fleet enforcing pressure for an armistice after Ottoman rejection of mediation.
A banquet is held inside the Thames Tunnel to demonstrate confidence in the pioneering construction project.
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
Brunel uses diving equipment and surface inspections to locate and repair the breach above the flooded tunnel.
Enters Trinity College, Cambridge
Appointed Irish Secretary, 1st term
Appointed Secretary to the Duke of Wellington as Master General of the Ordnance, and from 1827 till the death of the Duke in 1852
Raised to the peerage as Viscount Goderich, of Nocton in the County of Lincoln
Resigns from the Government because he could not serve under a pro-Catholic, canning
Makes a speech in the Commons supporting flogging in the Army
George IVs brother, Frederick "Grand Old Duke of York, dies making William heir
Authorizes British participation in the agreement for mediation between the Ottoman government and the Greeks.
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