Historical Events In April - 01

1778  On April - 01 oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol  

1785  J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter on April - 01.  

1789  House of Reps first full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg first speaker on this day in history.  

1789  On April - 01 house of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker  

1792  On April - 01 gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce  

1793  On this day in history volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000  

1799  Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52 on April - 01.  

1802  Hubert Reis, composer on this day in history.  

1803  French law rules the use of intention on April - 01.  

1807  On this day in history fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic  

1807  Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1809  On April - 01 nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General)  

1814  Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 on April - 01.  

1815  Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90) on April - 01.  

1817  On this day in history johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist  

1823  Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914 on this day in history.  

1826  On this day in history samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine  

1830  Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1832  Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies on April - 01.  

1834  Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer on April - 01.  

1836  Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands on April - 01.  

1843  On April - 01 ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist  

1847  Gavriil Musicescu, composer on this day in history.  

1850  SF County Govt established on April - 01.  

1852  On April - 01 second Burmese War breaks out after British ultimatum to King of Burma.  

1852  Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail) on April - 01.  

1853  On April - 01 cincinnati became first US city to pay firefighters a regular salary  

1853  On April - 01 cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary  

1854  On this day in history hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.  

1857  Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man on this day in history.  

1858  On this day in history arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)  

1862  Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA on April - 01.  

1863  Wartime conscription law in US goes into effect on April - 01.  

1863  1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect on April - 01.  

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1220  Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272) was born on April - 01.  

1283  On April - 01 birth of ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)  

1543  On this day in history birth of françois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)  

1578  William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation) was born on this day in history.  

1582  On April - 01 birth of gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter  

1582  On this day in history birth of thomas Simpson, composer  

1610  Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703) was born on this day in history.  

1640  On April - 01 birth of georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)  

1085  Death of Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048) on April - 01.  

1132  Death of St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053) on April - 01.  

1204  On April - 01 eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81  

1205  On this day in history amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies  

1528  On April - 01 death of francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer  

1548  On this day in history sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81  

1580  On this day in history death of alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer  

1611  Death of Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72 on April - 01.