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27 Safar or 27 Safar al-Khair or 27 Safar al-Muzaffar or Day 27 \ 2 (the seventh and twentieth day of the second month) is the seventh and fifty-seventh day of the year according to the Hijri Qamari calendar (Arabic). There remain 297 or 298 days for the end of the year.

Events

1 AH - Commemoration of the Prophet Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina.
615 AH - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
636 AH - The city of Valencia falls into the hands of the Aragonese Christians; where the flags of the Kingdom of Aragon were raised on the highest peak of the city walls, and the mosques were converted into churches, after the Muslims had ruled the city for five centuries.
927 AH - The Ottoman commander Ali Pasha defeats Jan Bardi al-Ghazali, who led a separatist movement in Syria against the Ottoman state, after he was appointed as governor of Damascus.
986 AH - The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Safavid state, and the Ottoman commander Lale Mustafa Pasha, conqueror of Cyprus, was the leader of this war. This declaration of war came after the death of Shah Iran Tahmasp bin Ismail Safavi.
1040 AH - The Ottoman army led by Khosrow Pasha besieged the city of Baghdad, which had been captured by the Safavids, but they lifted the siege after 39 days.
1043 AH - A huge fire broke out in Istanbul, causing the destruction of 20,000 homes. The fire was caused by smoking (cigarettes), prompting the Ottoman state to issue a decree banning smoking even at home.
1356 AH - The signing of the Montreux Treaty to cancel foreign concessions in Egypt, and one of the conditions of the conference held in Geneva to sign "Montreux" was that Egypt would derive its legislation from Western legislation.
1363 AH - The Soviet Union issued an official decision to expel the tribes of "Qarajai", "Jalqar", "Shiashan", and "Anjush" to Siberia and Central Asia, numbering approximately 2.5 million, mostly Muslims, after accusing them of treason against the Soviets. Only the Shiashans were allowed to return to their homeland after 13 years.
1368 AH -
The assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fami al-Nokrashi.
The convening of a conference in Nablus, which approved the appointment of King Abdullah I bin Hussein as the legitimate king of Palestine and Eastern Jordan.
1369 AH - Colonel Adib al-Shishakli carried out his third military coup in Syrian history, taking control of power.
1374 AH - A state of emergency was declared in Pakistan.
1380 AH - The independence of Senegal was announced.
1387 AH - Israeli forces succeeded in occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Palestine, the Golan Heights in Syria, and Egyptian Sinai, inflicting heavy losses on Arab forces at the hands of Israeli forces in modern history.
1396 AH - The declaration of the establishment of the Sahrawi Democratic Republic in Western Sahara, which Morocco claims is its territory.
1412 AH - The agreement to a ceasefire between the Polisario Front, which demands the establishment of a republic, and the Moroccan government in Western Sahara.
1420 AH - The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat.
1424 AH - The Kuwaiti National Assembly approved an amendment to the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development's law allowing 25% of its profits to be invested in infrastructure projects in Kuwait.
1425 AH - Israeli forces assassinated Abdelaziz al-Rantisi, leader of Hamas in Gaza, and two of his companions in a air raid targeting their car.
1426 AH - Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader, was elected president of Iraq for an interim period until the new constitution is put into effect and parliamentary elections are held.
1430 AH - An explosion in the Hussein neighborhood in Cairo resulted in the death of a French tourist and injury to 10 others.
1431 AH