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  Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) was born on this day in history.   

1521  On this day in history birth of francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)   

1580  Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess) was born on this day in history.   

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  Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer was born on this day in history.   

1732  On this day in history birth of george Colman, "the Elder   

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  John Leland, antiquary, dies on this day in history.   

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  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 on this day in history.