Page 2: Historical Events In April - 23

1660  On April - 23 treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.   

1661  On April - 23 king Charles II crowned the King of Great Britain and Ireland   

1661  On this day in history english king Charles II crowned in London   

1662  On April - 23 connecticut chartered as an English colony   

1670  Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1691  On April - 23 jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies   

1695  Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1697  On April - 23 george Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer   

1705  Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London on this day in history.   

1708  Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem) on this day in history.   

1715  On April - 23 johann Friedrich Doles, composer   

1723  Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht on this day in history.   

1728  On this day in history samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)   

1728  On this day in history tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83   

1732  Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63 on April - 23.   

1735  Ildephons Haas, composer on April - 23.   

1740  On April - 23 thomas Tickell, poet, dies   

1742  Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1747  Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer on April - 23.   

1756  On this day in history alexander Reinagle, composer   

1762  Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67 on April - 23.   

1774  Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies on April - 23.   

1775  On this day in history the birth of J.M Turner, English artist   

1775  On April - 23 opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)   

1775  On this day in history joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)   

1786  Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68 on this day in history.   

1789  On April - 23 president George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY   

1789  On April - 23 president-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY   

1791  On this day in history james Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)   

1795  On April - 23 william Hastings acquitted in England of high treason   

1798  On this day in history dutch emperor accepts new Constitution   

1803  On this day in history jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice   

1804  On this day in history guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)   

1809  Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer on April - 23.   

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1170  On this day in history birth of isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)   

1185  King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223) was born on April - 23.   

1464  Johanna van Valois, Queen of France was born on April - 23.   

1464  On April - 23 birth of robert Fayrfax, composer   

1484  Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things) was born on April - 23.   

1500  On April - 23 birth of alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician   

1500  On April - 23 birth of alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)   

1516  On this day in history birth of georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)   

0034  On April - 23 death of christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton   

0303  On April - 23 death of george, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded   

0725  On April - 23 death of wihtred, King of Kent   

0871  On this day in history ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies   

0990  On April - 23 ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies   

0997  On this day in history vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40   

1014  Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 on this day in history.   

1016  On this day in history aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies