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| 1927 |
| | | DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality | |
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| 1927 |
| | | In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore | |
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| 1927 |
| | | De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil | |
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| 1927 |
| | | In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies' | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Archaeologists, excavating the bison remains at Folsom, find an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton - first proof of the Folsom culture | |
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