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

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  On this day in history birth of ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)   

1605  Giacomo Carissimi, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies on this day in history.   

1161  On this day in history death of theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury   

1504  Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent   

1567  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 on this day in history.