Historical Events In April - 13

1832  James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator) on April - 13.  

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia on April - 13.  

1842  Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope on April - 13.  

1847  Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico on this day in history.  

1847  Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies) on April - 13.  

1849  On this day in history hungarian Republic proclaimed  

1849  Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist on this day in history.  

1852  The birth of F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores on this day in history.  

1854  On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)  

1858  On this day in history john Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.  

1860  1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif on April - 13.  

1860  On April - 13 james Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)  

1861  On this day in history after 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates  

1861  Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces on April - 13.  

1863  On this day in history battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)  

1864  On this day in history johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74  

1865  Sherman's march through Georgia begins on this day in history.  

1865  On this day in history sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again  

1865  On April - 13 battle of Raleigh, NC  

1865  Heinrich Reinhardt, composer on April - 13.  

1866  Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born on this day in history.  

1866  On April - 13 butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)  

1867  On April - 13 sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)  

1868  On this day in history abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.  

1868  John Blackwood McEwen, composer on this day in history.  

1868  On this day in history theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide  

1869  Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) on April - 13.  

1870  Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC on April - 13.  

1872  A Roda Roda, writer on this day in history.  

1873  Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) on April - 13.  

1873  Theodore Morse, composer on this day in history.  

1873  On April - 13 carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90  

1877  A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying on April - 13.  

1882  On April - 13 anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia  

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1506  On April - 13 birth of peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)  

1519  Catherine de' Médici, Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II was born on April - 13.  

1519  De Medicis, queen consort (Henry II of France) was born on April - 13.  

1545  Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II was born on April - 13.  

1547  On April - 13 birth of elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)  

1570  Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606) was born on this day in history.  

1573  On April - 13 birth of christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)  

1584  Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666) was born on April - 13.  

0799  On April - 13 paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies  

0814  Death of Krum of Bulgaria on April - 13.  

1093  Death of Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030) on April - 13.  

1279  Death of Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke on April - 13.  

1517  On April - 13 death of tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged  

1612  On April - 13 death of sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai  

1635  Death of Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572) on April - 13.  

1641  On this day in history death of richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)