Page 3: Historical Events In April - 13
Wednesday, 08 April 2026
1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator) 

1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 

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

1847 Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico 

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

1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed 

1849 Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist 

1852 F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores is born 

1854 Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) 

1858 John Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island 

1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif 

1860 James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen). 

1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates. 

1861 Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces 

1863 Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland) 

1864 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74. 

1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins 

1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again. 

1865 Battle of Raleigh, NC 

1865 Heinrich Reinhardt, composer 

1866 Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) born. 

1866 Butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage) 

1867 Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust and Engld Rugby wing-forward). 

1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala 

1868 John Blackwood McEwen, composer. 

1868 Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide 

1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse). 

1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC. 

1872 A Roda Roda, writer 

1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) 

1873 Theodore Morse, composer. 

1873 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 

1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia. 

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