Historical Events In April - 26
Monday, 16 May 2022
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa on April - 26.
1711 On this day in history david Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 On this day in history esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated on this day in history.
1726 On this day in history pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1726 On this day in history jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 on this day in history.
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow) on this day in history.
1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) on April - 26.
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia on April - 26.
1782 On this day in history maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1785 On April - 26 the birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter
1785 On April - 26 john James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1785 On this day in history karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
1787 On this day in history ludwig Uhland, writer
1789 Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 on April - 26.
1796 On this day in history auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1798 On April - 26 the birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist
1798 On April - 26 ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France on April - 26.
1805 On this day in history jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55
1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on April - 26.
1808 On this day in history martha Finley, children's book author
1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant on April - 26.
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England on this day in history.
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge established on this day in history.
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms on April - 26.
1820 On April - 26 alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 The birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect on this day in history.
1822 On this day in history frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1827 On April - 26 charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 On this day in history bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
1828 On April - 26 russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1834 Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist on April - 26.
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