1827

Events from the year 1827 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: John Quincy Adams (DR-MA)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (DR-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor (DR-NY) (until March 4), Andrew Stevenson (D-VA) (starting December 3)
* Congress: 19th (until March 4), 20th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* February 2 – The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan.
* February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
* March 12 – In Brown v. Maryland, the United States Supreme Court ruled that imported goods in their original package are under federal jurisdiction and thus not subject to state regulation.
* March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
* May 21 – The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.
* June 14 – J. J. Audubon's The Birds of America commences publication in the United Kingdom.
* September 3 – Ho-Chunk leader Red Bird surrenders to U.S. officials, ending the Winnebago War.
==Memoriam==
* February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, portrait painter (aged 85; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (aged 67; Saltillo, Mexico)
* April 24 – Israel Pickens, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (aged 47; Matanzas, Cuba)
* April 29
** Rufus King, lawyer, politician and diplomat (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
** Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (aged 66; Sharon, MA, USA)
* May 29 – Carlos Wilcox, poet (aged 32; MI Territory, USA)
* September 23 – Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (aged 46; Augusta, GA, USA)
* October 12 – John Eager Howard, politician (aged 75; Baltimore County, MD, USA)
* November 10 – St. George Tucker, lawyer and poet (aged 75; Warminster, VA, USA)
* November 25 – Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (aged 47; Georgetown, DC, USA)
==External links==
* 1827 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5