Page 2: Historical Events In April - 26

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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1319  Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64) was born on this day in history.   

1538  Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato) was born on April - 26.   

1564  William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet) was born on this day in history.   

1567  Nicolas Forme, composer was born on April - 26.   

1573  Marie de'Medici, Queen of France was born on this day in history.   

1603  On this day in history birth of francesco Nigetti, composer   

1637  Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1648  On April - 26 birth of pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)   

0757  On April - 26 stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies   

1192  Death of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127) on April - 26.   

1196  Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies on April - 26.   

1444  Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 on this day in history.   

1476  On April - 26 death of simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)   

1478  On April - 26 death of giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24   

1489  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465) on this day in history.   

1558  On this day in history jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies