Can i simulate a key press?

Question

The same way its possible to manually:

$('#load_more_content').click();

to simulate the item has been clicked (so any attached event will be fired)

can we do the same with the keyboard keys?

something like:

e.key = '27';

$(window).keyDown(e); ?

so its simulated the ESCAPE key to be pressed? (so any attached event will be fired)

Thanks a lot