Historical Events In April - 26
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
1709 On this day in history frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1711 David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature) on April - 26.
1718 Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy) on April - 26.
1721 On April - 26 smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1726 On April - 26 pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1726 On this day in history jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 on this day in history.
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow) on this day in history.
1776 On this day in history joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1777 On April - 26 sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1782 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria on April - 26.
1785 The birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter on this day in history.
1785 John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist on April - 26.
1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.
1787 On April - 26 ludwig Uhland, writer
1789 On this day in history peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67
1796 Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer on April - 26.
1798 The birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist on this day in history.
1798 On this day in history ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1803 On April - 26 meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1805 Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 on April - 26.
1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on April - 26.
1808 Martha Finley, children's book author on this day in history.
1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant on April - 26.
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England on April - 26.
1819 On this day in history odd Fellows Lodge established
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms on April - 26.
1820 Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) on this day in history.
1822 On April - 26 the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect
1822 On April - 26 frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.
1827 Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90 on April - 26.
1828 On this day in history russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1834 Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist on April - 26.
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