Events & Holidays In April - 27
Friday, 26 July 2024
Dan We Zo, alias St Louis Cleimeille (Haiti)
Day of Resistance (Slovenia)
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Horse Day (Turkmenistan)
Independence Day (Sierra Leone Togo)
Dan We Zo, alias St Louis Cleimeille (Haiti)
Day of Resistance (Slovenia)
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Horse Day (Turkmenistan)
Independence Day (Sierra Leone Togo)
1410 On this day in history birth of john Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia
1495 On this day in history birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
1623 On this day in history birth of johann Adam Reincken, composer
1650 Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.
1701 On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia
1707 On this day in history birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens
1718 On this day in history birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1724 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.
0630 On this day in history death of king Ardashir III of Persia
1076 Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on this day in history.
1124 Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.
1404 On this day in history philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62
1521 On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50
1599 Death of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538) on this day in history.
1605 On this day in history leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69
1613 Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on this day in history.