Page 2: Historical Events In April - 26
Friday, 18 July 2025
1709 On this day in history frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1711 On this day in history david Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 On this day in history esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated on this day in history.
1726 On April - 26 pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1726 Jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 on this day in history.
1731 On April - 26 daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow) on April - 26.
1776 Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) on this day in history.
1777 On April - 26 sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1782 On April - 26 maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1785 The birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter on this day in history.
1785 John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist on this day in history.
1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 on April - 26.
1787 On this day in history ludwig Uhland, writer
1789 Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 on April - 26.
1796 On April - 26 auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1798 The birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist on this day in history.
1798 On April - 26 ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France on April - 26.
1805 Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 on April - 26.
1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on this day in history.
1808 On April - 26 martha Finley, children's book author
1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant on April - 26.
1814 On April - 26 king Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 On this day in history odd Fellows Lodge established
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms on this day in history.
1820 On this day in history alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 On April - 26 the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park) on this day in history.
1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.
1827 On April - 26 bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
1828 On April - 26 russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1834 Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist on this day in history.
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