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1927
 
    
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance       
1927
 
    
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno       
1927
 
     
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism        
1927
 
    
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
1927
 
     
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat        
c. 1927
 
  
It is estimated that in approximately 1927 the population of the world reached two billion     
1928
 
   
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century      
1928
 
     
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock        
1928
 
     
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)