Page 2: Historical Events In April - 12
Thursday, 21 May 2026
1713 Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom. 

1716 Felice de' Giardini, composer. 

1722 Pietro Nardini, composer 

1724 Lyman Hall, US physician (signed Declaration of Independence). 

1727 Gaspare Gabellone, composer. 

1748 William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies. 

1760 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer. 

1760 Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer, dies at 64 

1764 Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland. 

1769 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer. 

1770 Townsend Acts repealed 

1776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina 

1777 Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], US politician. 

1782 Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French 

1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms. 

1788 Johann Erik Nordblom, composer. 

1788 Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56 

1791 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe) 

1792 John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham) 

1793 Ferdinand I KLJM, the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary 

1794 Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry) 

1795 Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary, dies at 80 

1797 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71. 

1801 Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader 

1802 Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart). 

1811 inaugural US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA 

1811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA. 

1815 Henry Hugo Pierson, composer. 

1817 Charles Messier, "comet ferret" and catalogs famous "M objects,", dies 

1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. 

1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright is born. 

1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (Artists and Admirers) 

1826 Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London. 

1827 Edward Mollenhauer, composer 

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