Events in the year 1827 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Monarch: Frederick VI Governor of Iceland: Peter Fjeldsted Hoppe.
Events
Autumn: The Icelandic Literary Society's journal Skírnir begins being published.Halldór Hermannsson, p. 32.Söguágrip, pp. 20, 44."Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag 200 ára", p. 13. Klausturpósturinn, the first monthly magazine published in Icelandic is discontinued.
Births
Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir, midwife and feminist. Páll Ólafsson, poet.
Deaths
18 December: Hans Jonatan, escaped slave, soldier, farmer and trader.
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