Historical Events For April - 04

1662  Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 on April - 04.  

1664  Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies on April - 04.  

1686  On this day in history english king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence  

1687  On this day in history english King James II orders his Declaration of Indulgence read in church  

1687  On this day in history king James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church  

1701  On April - 04 joseph Haines, entertainer and author  

1714  On April - 04 karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies  

1716  On this day in history russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar  

1716  On April - 04 john Evangelist Schreiber, composer  

1721  Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I on this day in history.  

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1731  On this day in history francisco Morera, composer  

1734  Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 on this day in history.  

1737  Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor on this day in history.  

1740  Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer on April - 04.  

1752  Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda) on April - 04.  

1755  Vincenc Masek, composer on April - 04.  

1758  On this day in history john Hoppner, portrait painter  

1762  Stephen Storace, composer on this day in history.  

1774  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 on this day in history.  

1776  Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel on April - 04.  

1784  Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies on April - 04.  

1785  Bettina Brentano, composer on this day in history.  

1786  John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic) on April - 04.  

1792  On this day in history thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)  

1804  On April - 04 joseph Fischhof, composer  

1806  Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

1807  Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies on this day in history.  

1809  Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer on this day in history.  

1814  Napoleon abdicates for the first time on April - 04.  

1814  John Blair Smith Todd, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 on April - 04.  

1817  On April - 04 john Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893  

1817  Prince d'Essing, dies on April - 04.  

1818  On this day in history congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars  

1818  On this day in history congress decided US flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars  

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0186  On April - 04 birth of caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)  

1492  On April - 04 birth of ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)  

1527  Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer was born on this day in history.  

1572  On April - 04 birth of william Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)  

1593  On this day in history birth of edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)  

1646  Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.  

1648  On this day in history birth of grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver  

1688  Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) was born on April - 04.  

0397  Ambrosius, gov of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies on April - 04.  

0636  On April - 04 death of saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560)  

0896  On this day in history formosus, Pope (891-96), dies  

1229  On this day in history hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies  

1284  On this day in history alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castile/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62  

1292  On April - 04 nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies  

1305  Death of Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217) on this day in history.  

1393  Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies on this day in history.