Events & Holidays In April - 18

Dybbøldagen (Slaget ved Dybbøl) - Official Flag Day (Denmark)

Health Day (Kiribati)

Independence Day (Zimbabwe)

Paul Revere Day (United States of America)

1480  On this day in history birth of lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)  

1521  Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac) was born on this day in history.  

1580  On this day in history birth of thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)  

1590  On this day in history birth of ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)  

1590  Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.  

1605  On this day in history birth of giacomo Carissimi, composer  

1729  On this day in history birth of gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer  

1732  George Colman, "the Elder was born on this day in history.  

0680  On this day in history mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies  

1161  Death of Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

1504  On this day in history filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52  

1530  Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 on this day in history.  

1552  On this day in history john Leland, antiquary, dies  

1556  Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1558  Death of Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent on this day in history.  

1567  On this day in history wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63