Page 2: Historical Events In April - 26

1709  On April - 26 frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa   

1711  David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature) on April - 26.   

1718  On this day in history esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)   

1721  Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated on April - 26.   

1726  On this day in history pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter   

1726  Jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 on April - 26.   

1731  On April - 26 daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70   

1755  On this day in history 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)   

1776  Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) on this day in history.   

1777  Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia on April - 26.   

1782  Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria on this day in history.   

1785  On this day in history the birth of John James Audubon, American naturalist painter   

1785  On April - 26 john James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist   

1785  Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 on April - 26.   

1787  On April - 26 ludwig Uhland, writer   

1789  Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 on this day in history.   

1796  On April - 26 auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer   

1798  On April - 26 the birth of Eugene Delacroix, French artist   

1798  On April - 26 ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)   

1803  On April - 26 meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France   

1805  On this day in history jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55   

1806  Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer on this day in history.   

1808  On April - 26 martha Finley, children's book author   

1812  On April - 26 alfred Krupp, German arms merchant   

1814  On this day in history king Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England   

1819  Odd Fellows Lodge established on this day in history.   

1819  Odd Fellows Lodge forms on this day in history.   

1820  On April - 26 alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

1822  On this day in history the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect   

1822  On this day in history frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)   

1827  On April - 26 charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1827  On April - 26 bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90   

1828  Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence on this day in history.   

1834  On this day in history artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist   

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1319  On April - 26 birth of jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)   

1538  On this day in history birth of giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)   

1564  On this day in history birth of william Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)   

1567  On this day in history birth of nicolas Forme, composer   

1573  On this day in history birth of marie de'Medici, Queen of France   

1603  Francesco Nigetti, composer was born on April - 26.   

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

1648  Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706) was born on April - 26.   

0757  Stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies on this day in history.   

1192  On April - 26 death of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)   

1196  Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies on this day in history.   

1444  On April - 26 robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65   

1476  Death of Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453) on April - 26.   

1478  On this day in history death of giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24   

1489  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465) on April - 26.   

1558  On April - 26 jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies